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+[DEFAULT]
+
+# -- sorts out sender and destination email addresses
+
+## -- this will be changed by canonical mapping in postfix
+sender = root@albert.server
+
+## -- destination - will be picked up by /etc/aliases
+destemail = root
+
+
+# -- changed it from "sendmail" to "mail".
+# -- means it uses mail-whois-lines not sendmail-whois-lines
+
+mta = mail
+
+## -- the jail name is set to the name by default
+jailname = %(__name__)s
+
+## use "jailname = Annoying Portscan Sniffer" in a jail to change the name
+## .. just for emails, not for chains, etc.
+
+# ban & send an e-mail with whois report and relevant log lines
+# to the destemail, but with a Jail name for forwarding
+
+action_mwlj = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, bantime="%(bantime)s", port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"]
+             %(mta)s-whois-lines[name=%(jailname)s, sender="%(sender)s", dest="%(destemail)s", logpath="%(logpath)s", chain="%(chain)s"]