[FR] switch to wildlsearch for some blacklists

Blocking domains does not work against spambots networks, but it does work against known companies with a bad reputation. These companies often use subdomains to send their messages, so it's useful to be able to use something like: *.badcompany.tld

SB uses lsearch to retrieve domains from text files and thus doesn't recognizes wildcards.

I would suggest switching to using wildlsearch instead.

I'm assuming you're referring to blacklist_domains?
Can you confirm that this change works? John[/COLOR]

I had changed this line some times ago and it work fine:

hostlist bad_sender_hosts = wildlsearch;/etc/virtual/bad_sender_hosts

Regards

In case anyone isnt sure of the various files:

blacklist_senders is a list of specific senders to be blocked. Senders are not necessarily the same as the from address.

blacklist_domains is a list of specific domains; in other words, the right side of the sender; the domain from the sender is sending email. Again, not necessarily the same as the domain in the from address.

bad_sender_hosts is the hostname.

The wildcard search can be used in any of these.

Should we make the change in all versions? I'm afraid it might cause too broad a blocking behavior, but I'd like to hear what others think.

Jeff