Problems with outgoing mail being detected as spam

[Jeff Graves]

Well, I made this change as suggested:

....

Hmm. Now that I am reading this again, why are you using whitelisting
at
all for this? I prefer to stop spam checks alltogether for messages
from
my local domain:

In MailScanner.conf put

Spam Checks = /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.checks.rules

And in this file put

From: *@image-src.com   no
From: 65.219.192.               no
FromTo: default         yes

That should do the trick.

....

And certain outgoing mail is still being checked for spam. I have a
script that sends a message for procmail without a from address. This
message is being marked as spam even though it came from the mail
server. How do I configure MailScanner to not check any mail for spam
if it is coming from localhost? Here's the headers:

Date:  Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:21:07 -0500
From:  <>
Message-Id:  <200303111821.h2BIL7i2014928 at mailsrv.image-src.com>
Received:  from mailsrv.image-src.com (localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1]) by mailsrv.image-src.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id
h2BIL744014930 for <admin at image-src.com>; Tue, 11 Mar 2003
13:21:07 -0500
(from jeff at localhost) by mailsrv.image-src.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit)
id h2BIL7i2014928; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:21:07 -0500

Return-Path:  <jeff at image-src.com>
Subject:  {Spam} Email
To:  admin at image-src.com
X-MailScanner:  Found to be clean
X-MailScanner-SpamCheck:  spam, SpamAssassin (score=5.2, required 5,
FROM_MALFORMED, FROM_NO_USER)
X-MailScanner-SpamScore:  sssss

It seems like the "From:" directive in the spam.checks.rules file I
created is actaully checking against the "From:" directive in the
envelope. How do I tell MailScanner to not check the mail at all if it
came from the local sendmail server?

Jeff Graves
Customer Support Engineer
Image Source, Inc.
10 Mill Street
Bellingham, MA 02019

jeff at image-src.com - Email
508.966.5200 X31 - Phone
508.966.5170 - Fax

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Jan-Peter Koopmann
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:16 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Problems with outgoing mail being detected as spam


Hi Jeff,

> As you suggested, I listed my mailserver first in the list
> and outgoing mail is still being detected as spam. So I need
> to "turn on" the autowhitelist?

No this has nothing to do with autowhitelisting. Are you by any chance
running exim? There was a bug in MailScanner (at least in 4.13-3)
which
would explain exactly this behavior (at least when using domain
names).


> /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules:
>
> # This is where you can build a Spam WhiteList
> # Addresses matching in here, with the value
> # "yes" will never be marked as spam.
> #From:   152.78.        yes
> #From:  130.246.        yes
> FromTo: default         no
> From:   65.219.192.36   yes
> From:   65.219.192.35   yes
>

As Jeremy mentioned this should read

From:   65.219.192.36   yes
From:   65.219.192.35   yes
FromTo: default         no

Why are you not using domain names btw? From my point of view this is
easier.

From: *@image-src.com   yes

Are you absolutely sure that the envelope shows one of these e-mail
adresses as the sender?

....

Hmm. Now that I am reading this again, why are you using whitelisting
at
all for this? I prefer to stop spam checks alltogether for messages
from
my local domain:

In MailScanner.conf put

Spam Checks = /opt/MailScanner/etc/rules/spam.checks.rules

And in this file put

From: *@image-src.com   no
From: 65.219.192.               no
FromTo: default         yes

That should do the trick.

Regards,
  JP