Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, manu@n... wrote:
> Matthias Scheler <tron@z...> wrote:
> 
> > I've got this statement in my "greylist.conf" ...
> > 
> > domain web.de
> > 
> > ... to whitelist one of Germany's largest free e-mail provider. Today
> > I found out that this also whitelists hosts with "s-web.de" as there
> > reverse resolving. Is that intentional? I would prefer if the above
> > entry only matched "web.de" and "*.web.de" but not "*web.de*" as
> > it obviously does.
> 
> That was intentionnal a long time ago: from, rcpt, and domain match any
> substring. Use regex if you need an exact match.
> 

Why is this? Wouldn't it be more intuitive to have an exact match for
both email and domains listings in the greylist.conf? 

-Andy