small hole in SpamAssassin check?

[Julian Field]

At 20:20 31/10/2002, you wrote:
>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.

Take a look at the message envelope, there must be some clue in there.
No-one has reported a problem of this type.


>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.
> >
> >
>
>
>--
>This message has been scanned for viruses and
>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>believed to be clean.

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