Spam.whitelist.rules file question

[Steve Hickel]

So you are saying that he needed to put 194.205.110.133 instead or in
addition to?

Steve

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 05:03, Julian Field wrote:
> 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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Steve Hickel <smhickel at chartermi.net>
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