how to let abuse emails through

[Paul Welsh]

Date:    Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:43:57 -0400
From:    Gerry Doris <gerry at DORFAM.CA>
Subject: Re: how to let abuse emails through

> I don't think using spam.whitelist.conf will work, since you need to
> enter the sender, not the recipient.
>
> Is there a way around this so that all email to, say, abuse@* will be
> delivered regardless of score (perhaps even bypass spamassassin
> completely)?

SpamAssassin does all this.  See their documentation at
http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#user%20preferenc
es.

I made the changes to  /usr/share/spamassassin/60_whitelist.cf and it works
a treat.

I tried the mailscanner spam.whitelist.conf file, but found it not to be
quite so flexible -    it gets overwritten at each upgrade and you need to
restart mailscanner to get the changes to kick in.

Here's the relevant bits from the SpamAssassin documentation:

whitelist_to add at ress.com

  If the given address appears in the To: or Cc: headers, mail will be
whitelisted. Useful if you're deploying SpamAssassin system-wide, and don't
want some users to have their mail filtered. Same format as whitelist_from.
  There are three levels of To-whitelisting, whitelist_to, more_spam_to and
all_spam_to. Users in the first level may still get some spammish mails
blocked, but users in all_spam_to should never get mail blocked.


  more_spam_to add at ress.com

  See above.