Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Jeremy Runner wrote:
>> What is the purpose of the info below in the badmailfrom file. I could
>> not receive or send for one of the domains I created until I removed the
>> info.
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> These are regular expressions that are compared to the "envelope's" sender
> address. If it matches, the mail is rejected with an appropriate message.
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> I'll do my best to translate each one into english. Please cut me some slack
> if I don't get them quite right.
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>> .*\ @.*
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> This says: any number of (*) any character (.) followed by a space (\ )
> followed by an 'at' character (@) followed by any number of any character
> (.*). Simply put, it's checking for a space before the @ sign.
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> As I understand it, the initial '.*' and trailing '.*' are not needed, as
> the regex (qregex, actually) is matched against any substring of the
> address, not the entire address. Thus,
> \ @
> would accomplish the same thing.
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> This one says: not any number (*) of (!) any character (.) followed by an
> 'at' character (@) followed by any number of any character (.*) followed by
> a period (\.) followed by any number of any character (.*). Simply put, it's
> looking for "@something.", and if it doesn't find it, it's rejected.
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> Once again, this could be simplified as:
> @.*\.
Oops! Should be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> .*%.*
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> You want to guess what this is doing?
> Ok, scroll down for the answer.
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> It's looking for a percent sign! Again, simply
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> would do. I'm guessing that this might have been the one causing you problems.
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> I wonder why we need these qregex's in the badmailfrom file for the basic
> toaster. I'm thinking that chkuser checks for all this stuff (and a whole
> lot more). Are these leftovers from the toaster's pre-chkuser days?
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> Then again, maybe I'm missing something.
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-Eric 'shubes'
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