Re: Blocking based on From and To fields

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On Jan 27, 2008 4:23 PM, MrC <lists-squirrelmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> NICK MISEUR wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > can anyone advice me which plugin is the best suitable and easy to achieve the
> > following:
> >
> > 1. block from within end user interface e-mails based on "from" field
> > 2. block from within end user interface e-mails based on "to" field
>
> When you say "block", do you mean "reject" or "toss into trash/junk items" ?
>
> You cannot reject email from the MUA (end user interface), as the mail
> has already been accepted by the MTA.  You can certainly create rules to
> discard received email.
>
> If you want to reject email while it is being delivered based upon mail
> headers, you'll have to configure your MTA.
>
> Mail is either accepted or rejected by the MTA.  Once your MUA see the
> mail, it is too late to reject; all you can do is return a bounce (not a
> good idea in your case most likely) or discard the message.

However, there are some plugins that serve as a front end to
configuring white/blacklist functionality in the kinds of tools that
you put into your MTA to do this kind of thing.  But the OP sounds
like he doesn't want to even do that, in which case, of course, SM
can't really help because it's not an MTA.

> > Don't need anti software to decidede what is spam or not, I just need the
> > ability to block/black list e-mail addresses quickly
> >
> > Thanks
> > Nick

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