Ulrik Haugen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Cami <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Evan Roberts wrote:
>>     
>>> The issue I'm having is with maillists, as Leonardo mentioned. I
>>> could very easily add them manually to Postfix, but I wanted to see
>>> about keeping everything within policyd if at all possible.
>>>       
>
>   
>>> One example is that I occasionally get those irritating "Cruise
>>> Critic" emails, with the "from" of:
>>>       
>
>   
>>> owner-ccnewsletterevanevanroberts-...@listserv.independenttraveler.com
>>>       
>
>   
>>> I was hoping to use the blacklist_sender for that, either blocking
>>> the entire address, or just "@listserv.independenttraveler.com",
>>> but it would appear that the length of the email address is too
>>> large for policyd to handle. I have added
>>> "@listserv.independenttraveler.com" to the blacklist_sender, but
>>> since policyd sees it as such:
>>>       
>
>   
>>> [email protected]
>>>       
>
>   
>>> ...it doesn't reject the email based on the blacklist, it greylists
>>> it, which eventually gets through.
>>>       
>
>   
>> I will rewrite some bits of code to truncate the email address +
>> domain in reverse order so the output looks similar to:
>>     
>
>   
>> [email protected]
>>     
>
>   
>> Thanks for spotting/reporting this problem.
>>     
>
>
> Did anyone write a patch to do this? I'm currently suffering large
> volumes of commercial email from addresses like:
>
> studentuniverse_04f50a75a780c0eb39921351b3fda6eccb7b8ef3fab3d...@response.whatcounts.com
>
> and I can't figure out a way to throttle it. I'm fine with throttling
> all email from @response.whatcounts.com, but that doesn't seem
> possible.
>
> I'm using Policyd 1.82.
>   
More than likely possible with v2 if we add a different way of tracking
email, based on splitting off various parts of the address using the +.

-N
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