small hole in SpamAssassin check?

Matt Kettler mkettler at EVI-INC.COM
Thu Oct 31 16:36:59 GMT 2002


Check your "Accept Spam From" settings in your mailscanner.conf.
MailScanner will not scan emails coming from those IPs for spam.

I'm guessing that you have the server that is forwarding your mail listed
there.

At 07:18 AM 10/31/2002 +0100, Remco Barendse wrote:
>Probably this is very obvious or maybe it is a bug but anyways..
>
>I have several e-mail adresses that I only use to receive mail and the
>mail to these accounts is automatically forwarded to the one e-mail
>address I actually use.
>
>I notice that these forwarded e-mails (which are adressed to another
>domain) are checked for viruses by MailScanner but do NOT get run through
>SpamAssassin. These message headers do not contain a line for spamcheck
>either.
>
>I am using the latest 3.x MailScanner on a RedHat 8 box with stock
>SpamAssassin installed.



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