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Re: [milter-greylist] milter-greylist 2.0.2 forgets its whitelist

2005-12-14 by Matt Kettler

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Matt Kettler wrote on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:02:37 -0500:
> 
> 
>>acl whitelist domain or.uspops.net will match "for.uspops.net.com" but the regex 
>>above will not.
> 
> 
> If it really works this way it doesn't work as I expect it to work. A domain 
> literal is not a regex. 

That's correct. It isn't a regex.

> Documentation says only strings with // around them are 
> processed as regex.

True, only // are treated as regex.

> "example.net" may match for example.net and any subdomain of 
> it, but it should not match example.net.whatever. That is how matches in sendmail
> and other black/whitelists I know work. And milter-greylist seems to work just like 
> this. 

Are you sure? It isn't a regex, but that doesn't mean it can't be a substring
match, and substrings WILL match in the middle.

I'm pretty sure that milter-greylist does substring-matching, not end-of-string
matching.

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