Maintaining ASK via email.
Craig Daters <[email protected]>
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First, let me offer up a BIG thank-you to Marco Paganini for creating ASK and to Kurt Werle for his contributions. Until I found your solution for dealing with junk mail, I was using RBL's. When we pulled all of our networking in-house two years ago, what started as a very minor annoyance grew into a very time consuming task. I started by fine-tuning Sendmail, and that helped. Over time I graduated to RBL's and that helped. Over time, it got so bad I was looking to SpamAssassin and Procmail to help. Then I found ASK. I had it up and running in under 30 minutes on our worst junk-mail targeted account. No more junk mail! Mine was the next. I am now at work on scripts to have it help expidite installation on everyone's account, and trying to figure out a way to have ASK set up automatically every time new users are created! You rock Marco! Thank's again. Now, I have an observation/concern. I noticed that in the documentation that deals with the white/black/ignorelist.txt files, care is given to explain that you must backslash before the period at the end of the email address (somerwher\.com) to differentiate between a wildcard and an actual domain name. Yet when I send the command "ask edit white/black/ignorelist" the resulting file that is returned mentions none of this and in fact shows normal domain names. Thinking that maybe ask.py would substitute the backslash so as to not confuse un-savvy users, I did not pay it much mind, until I happened to be manually editing a list, and noticed that none of the entries had a backslash. I am just curious to know if this is an oversight? Can the instructions returned in the email be changed to match what is in the documentation (if the documentation is indeed correct)? -- --- Craig Daters ([email protected]) Graphic Designer / Systems Administrator West Press Printing & Copying 1663 West Grant Road Tucson, Arizona 85745-1433 Tel: 520-624-4939 Fax: 520-624-2715 www.westpress.com --- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn