small hole in SpamAssassin check?

Remco Barendse mailscanner at BARENDSE.TO
Thu Oct 31 20:20:20 GMT 2002


No, no exceptions made :)

The mail is being bounced by a regular isp to my box, neither the ISP
domain nor the sender's domain are on any list.

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Matt Kettler wrote:

> 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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