On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I failed to explain what I meant. I want to have a lookup done from a central > filter or system filter, but the lookup would be performed on an external file > such as /var/mail/block/dirty_spammer.db and dirty_spammer.db would consist > of "Received:" headers, one to each line. I have tried it and it did not work. Yes, you can use lookups from external files in the rules, you must have had the syntax wrong.