Whitelist Problem

[Julian Field]

At 19:15 12/08/2002, you wrote:
>I hate to admit this but I can't get the whitelist to work correctly.
>
>I added the following line to /usr/local/MailScanner/etc/whitelist.conf
>(I'm going from memory and I'm not exactly sure of the filename)
>
>From: lyris.gamespy.com
>
>I assumed that would be enough to have all mail arriving from that
>location to be passed through without marking it as spam.  However, any
>mail showing up is still processed and marked by spamassassin.
>
>What have I missed?

The address that is relevant here is the envelope sender address, not the
From: header. Check your maillog to see if you are matching the right thing.

Also if you ask it to always include the spamassassin header, does it say
anything about whitelisting?
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