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An email whitelist is a list of hosts, domains, or email addresses which will be accepted by SME Server regardless of possible spam content or origin.  Administrators should use caution when using whitelists as email coming from whitelisted addresses will bypass many of the mechanisms that SME provides for identifying unsafe email messages.
 
An email whitelist is a list of hosts, domains, or email addresses which will be accepted by SME Server regardless of possible spam content or origin.  Administrators should use caution when using whitelists as email coming from whitelisted addresses will bypass many of the mechanisms that SME provides for identifying unsafe email messages.
  
An email blacklist is a list of hosts, domains, or email addresses that will be blocked at the smtp agent all of the time.
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An email blacklist is a list of hosts, domains, or email addresses that will be blocked all of the time.
  
 
===Installation===
 
===Installation===

Revision as of 04:23, 14 October 2008


Maintainer

Greg J. Zartman

Originally developed by Darrell May.

Description

This contrib provides a server-manager panel to designate user defined email whitelists and blacklists.

An email whitelist is a list of hosts, domains, or email addresses which will be accepted by SME Server regardless of possible spam content or origin. Administrators should use caution when using whitelists as email coming from whitelisted addresses will bypass many of the mechanisms that SME provides for identifying unsafe email messages.

An email blacklist is a list of hosts, domains, or email addresses that will be blocked all of the time.

Installation

Install of the lastest Email Whitelist-Blacklist package is from the smecontribs repo:

1. Install the latest advanced samba rpm from the contribs repos:

yum --enablerepo smecontribs install smeserver-wbl

2. Reconfigure machine:

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

Usage Examples

-- usage examples here--

Known Issues

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME Contribs section in bugzilla .