Peter:
> On 12/08/22 08:41, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > After some delay, I have verified that postscreen_dnsbl_sites works
> > as promised: it adds up the scores from all matching patterns.
> >
> > This verification required some infrastructure to test postscreen's
> > scoring code outside of postscreen. I have written a half-dozen
> > tests to ensure that future changes in hat code will not introduce
> > changes (i.e. mistakes).
>
> Thanks Wietse I appreciate you looking into that and the clarification
> helps a lot for me to make sure that my rules will have the effect that
> I want.
>
> So the basic premise, if I understand correctly, is that each rule is
> individually tested against all returned values for the corresponding
> DNSBL query, if any returned value matches the rule then that rule's
> weight is added (or subtracted) from the total dnsbl weight.
I have phrased it as
Optional list of patterns with DNS allow/denylist domains, filters
and weight factors.
...
When a postscreen_dnsbl_sites pattern matches one or more DNSBL
query results, postscreen(8) adds that pattern's weight once
to the remote SMTP client's DNSBL score.
in updated documentation.
Wietse
