Spam.whitelist.rules file question

[Julian Field]

At 08:30 30/01/2003, you wrote:
>Yesterday morning I updated the spam.whitelist.rules file (on cheviot1)
>so that it now looks like:
>
>   ....
>   From:  *.messagelabs.com      yes
>   From:  default                no

So if the envelope sender address ends in ".messagelabs.com" then it is
whitelisted.

>However at 18:30 a message that should have been whitelisted was in fact
>tagged as spam. The envelope-from address in the tagged message is given
>in:
>
>Received: from mail9.messagelabs.com

That's the name of the host, not the email address that sent the message to
you.

If you want to whitelist mail from specific IP addresses, then you need to
whitelist those specific numeric IP's (or use a regular expression that
covers them).

>       (mail9.messagelabs.com [194.205.110.133])
>         by cheviot1.ncl.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id h0TIU5k31581
>         for <x.x.xxx at ncl.ac.uk>; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:30:05 GMT
>
>Other whitelisted entries appear to be working OK so I am perplexed as
>to why this one was tagged.
>
>Quentin
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