how to let abuse emails through

[Julian Field]

At 08:55 05/07/2002, you wrote:
>I tried the mailscanner spam.whitelist.conf file, but found it not to be
>quite so flexible -    it gets overwritten at each upgrade

Not any more it doesn't :)

>  and you need to
>restart mailscanner to get the changes to kick in.

It will re-read it the next time it restarts itself (default is every 4 hours).

>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.

Looks like I could have saved myself some time last night... Ho hum.
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