3.22.7: all spam from my own domain?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jul 27 15:43:00 IST 2002


Fixed in 3.22-8.

At 13:13 27/07/2002, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>    Hmmm, noticed the whitelist stuff in this area of the code.  I had
>these three lines (recently added as of 3.22.7) in whitlist.conf:
>
>To:   spam at colby.edu
>To:   abuse at colby.edu
>To:   postmaster at colby.edu
>
>I commented them out and the domains started looking right in the SA
>output.  Bug?  More misuse on my part?
>
>** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 207-872-3659
>** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL: jaearick at colby.edu
>** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX: 207-872-3076
>** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 07:53:58 -0400
> > From: Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: 3.22.7: all spam from my own domain?
> >
> > Julian,
> >
> >    I went from 3.22.5 to 3.22.7 on Thursday, and I just noticed that now
> > SpamAssassin puts my domain name after the IP number for the spam in
> > the syslog message, eg
> >
> > Message g6RBkRu6016747 from 64.156.187.130 (colby.edu) is spam according
> > to SpamAssassin...
> >
> > What gives?
> >
> > ** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 207-872-3659
> > ** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL:
> jaearick at colby.edu
> > ** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX: 207-872-3076
> > ** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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