Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:55:50 +0100 (BST) From: jason+freebsd@kanda.com To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hub.freebsd.org spam policy Message-ID: <20020405122950.F82078-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> In-Reply-To: <20020405100828067.AAA385@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > What is this localhost thing, I've scanned through this discussion but > > couldn't find a complete description of the problem > > > > From what I can work out your saying that Message-ID's ending in localhost > > are rejected. > > > > But a quick grep of my freebsd-questions archive (approx 4 months): > > > > grep -i -c 'message-id.*localhost>$' freebsd > > 93 (matches) > > > > grep -i -c 'message-id.*localdomain>$' freebsd > > 112 (matches) > That's interesting. The only thing I changed to circumvent the > filtering was something which changed the format of the Message-ID > string from: > > Message-ID: <ABCDEFGH.12345.ABCDEFG@localhost> > > to > > Message-ID: <1234567890.ABCDEF@[mta hostname]@[originating hostname]> > > > I have no idea how long hub.freebsd.org has filtered on that string. > Noone has been forthcoming with details and I haven't been posting to > the lists consistently enough to be a good judge. > > Certainly your statistics would imply a significant amount of > messages would be blocked by that measure. What was the date of the > latest match? 3rd March 2002 - localhost 4th April 2002 - localhost.localdomain > One other thing: will that dot after "message-id" only find text > which has a dot in that position? Because that isn't what the > Message-ID header looks like. (see above) No, it fine, ".*" is a wildcard. (. = match any character, * = match any number of times) Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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