I'm not sure I understand your question. If you want to block messages without a "From" line in their header, spamdyke can't do that. You may be able to use a secondary filter like maildrop to delete the message after it is accepted however.
-- Sam Clippinger On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Linux via spamdyke-users <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: > sorry to hang me for this post, but I would consult them taking advantage of > the conversation can be locked via e-mail comes without sender? I'm getting a > lot of spam that has this pattern. > > Best regards, > > Paul > > 2015-10-03 1:05 GMT-03:00 Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users > <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org>: > Sam, > > > On 2015-10-02 23:47, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: > I guess so, but remember the wildcarding uses globbing, not regexes. > What I mean is: using "?*" is equivalent to just "*". > > > Right. > > > Also, the line > has to contain at least one colon or spamdyke won't use it (message > headers always use a colon to separate the field name from the value). > > > Yep. > > > Why not just use multiple entries in the file? If either one matches, > the message will be blocked and it'd be easier to understand: > From: *@skysoft.com [1] > Reply-To: *@skysoft.com [1] > > > Doubling the number of lines offends my sensibilities . . this works: > > [FR][re][op][ml]*:*iskysoft.com* > > Also, sorting this issue out forced me to sort out the rDNS problem for my > main web server - so thanks for that too! > > Regards, > > Phil. > > > -- Sam Clippinger > > On Oct 2, 2015, at 4:34 AM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users > <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: > > On 2015-10-02 15:42, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users wrote: > Sam, > On 2015-09-26 01:12, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: > The header blacklist file has a different format from the sender > blacklist file, so just copying entries from one to the other won't > work. You need to provide a pattern that matches the line(s) in the > message header -- in your mail client, you should have an option to > "view message source" or "view raw headers" that will show you what > it > looks like. In this specific case, you probably want this: > Reply-To: *@skysoft.com [1] [3]* > The format is case insensitive and uses globbing for wildcards, so * > will match multiple characters and [] will match a set or range of > characters, just like the bash command prompt. The filter will > ignore > any lines in the file that don't contain a colon. Full details here: > http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#HEADERS [2] [4] > So if I wanted to block the same address for both From: and > Reply-To: > I could use: > [fr][re][op][ml].*@skysoft.com [1] > > [fr][re][op][ml]?*@skysoft.com [1] > > so "*" doesn't repeat only "[ml]" ? > > ? > Thanks, > Phil. > For testing, you certainly can use telnet -- I do it all the time. > Just make sure the host you telnet from isn't blocked or whitelisted > for some other reason (most folks whitelist localhost, for example). > -- Sam Clippinger > On Sep 25, 2015, at 1:31 AM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users > <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: > Sam, > On 2015-09-15 07:27, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: > Actually, no. The sender-blacklist-* and recipient-blacklist-* > filters > operate on different data from the header-blacklist-* filters. The > reason is because the sender and recipient addresses are given > during > the SMTP protocol and aren't part of the message itself -- the > addresses you see in your mail client are the From and To entries > from > the message header. The first paragraph here explains in a little > more > detail: > http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#REJECTING_SENDERS > [3] > > [1] > [1] > Yes, sorry, I should have realised that . . > Put another way, the sender address doesn't have to match the > "From" > address visible in the mail client -- well-behaved mail clients > make > them the same, but that's a courtesy and not a requirement. The > Reply-To address is part of the message header and, again, is only > a > convention used by well-behaved clients. If you've ever been Bcc'd > on > a message, you've seen this in action -- the sender's mail client > gave > your address as a recipient but didn't put your address on the > "To" > line in the message header. > Right, so, some follow up questions: I moved the following from the > sender-blacklist to the header-blacklist: > @iskysoft.com [2] > - first in the conf file then later into a separate > header-blacklist-file with all the massaged addresses from my old > setup - but the sender above still seems to be getting through. I > thought the "@" was supposed to act like a wild card? Am I still > doing something wrong? > When I add addresses etc to blacklists etc, is there any way of > doing a test myself to see that the block is working? Using a telnet > to port 25 on my qmail server and manually pasting header lines is > not a real test is it? > Thanks, > Phil. > -- Sam Clippinger > On Sep 13, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users > <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: > Sam, > On 2015-09-14 11:38, Sam Clippinger via spamdyke-users wrote: > I'm not entirely sure I understand your question... if the > Reply-To > address is always the same, you should be able to block it using > the > header blacklist filter. > Ah . . OK - I will try that but doesn't that mean that: > sender-blacklist-entry > is redundant - ie: > header-blacklist-entry > should cover everything? > Thanks, > Phil. > If you're wanting to compare the Reply-To > address to the From address or the sender address, spamdyke > doesn't > have that ability. > -- Sam Clippinger > On Sep 13, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Philip Rhoades via spamdyke-users > <spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> wrote: > People, > One variety of spam that is successfully delivered to me has a > different "From:" addresses but the same "Reply-To:" address - I > can't see a way of blocking these mails in the conf file via the > "Reply-To:" address - is it possible? > Thanks, > Phil. > -- > Philip Rhoades > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > -- > Philip Rhoades > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > Links: > ------ > [1] > http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#REJECTING_SENDERS > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > -- > Philip Rhoades > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > Links: > ------ > [1] > http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#REJECTING_SENDERS > [2] http://iskysoft.com > [3] http://skysoft.com > [4] http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#HEADERS > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > -- > Philip Rhoades > > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://skysoft.com > [2] http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#HEADERS > [3] http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/README.html#REJECTING_SENDERS > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > -- > Philip Rhoades > > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
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