Anti-Spam Block List Syntax

[bernhard_m]

Does anyone have any information on what syntax is supported in the Anti-Spam Block List?
The documentation is not very elaborately on this. Just that I should add a "domain name or email address".
Is this a basic pattern matching? Are wildcards allowed? Is the match bound to the end?

Examples:

Does "acme.com" also match emails from "foo.acme.com"?
Does "acme.com" also match emails from "acme.company.net"
Does "@acme.com" also match?
Can I use "@*.acme.com" ?

Any information or recommendations on this are very welcome,

Thanks, Bernhard

[PhoneBoy]

Are you talking about the anti-spam on the gateway side? 
The answer I got back from @CheckMatesAI suggests the following:

• acme.com will only match acme.com (not foo.acme.com)
• @acme.com will only match emails from acme.com (not foo.acme.com)
• *.acme.com will match foo.acme.com (but not acme.com)
• @*.acme.com will match emails from foo.acome.com (but not acme.com)
• ? can be used for a single character wildcard

However, I can't find any other confirmation of this information.

[bernhard_m]

Thanks Dameon, what i can tell so far is, that the string requires to include an "@" even for the domain.
...at least if i use SmartConsole, maybe this is different using the API.

While using wildcards is accepted, the question is still if they are behaving correctly. eg.

• @*.acme.com
• @*.shop

[the_rock]

Technically, if you use * in custom url object in smart console, that would include ANY sub-domain.

Andy

[bernhard_m]

Hi Andy, thanks but I'm asking about Anti-Spam Block List and not Custom Applications.
Configuring an Anti-Spam Block List

Bernhard

[the_rock]

K, got it now. Apologies, not sure if same would apply there, never really "fiddled" with those settings.

Andy

[PhoneBoy]

As these settings are still set in SmartDashboard (not SmartConsole), I presume there is no API support.
Like I said, I found no documentation to confirm what @CheckMatesAI had to say about it.

[bernhard_m · Accepted solution]

According to my tests, it seems that wildcards do not work either.

So my conclusion is, that there are infact only two options for using the Block List.

• A full email-address ( eg. "foo@acme.com" )
• A full email-domain ( eg. "@acme.com" )

So there's definitely room for improvement... 😉

Bernhard

[the_rock]

Thanks for the update @bernhard_m