How is SPAM filtering turned off for reply e-mail? Also, reply issues...

[Julian Field]

The easiest thing is to add your entire netblock to the spam whitelist. At
work, we have the whole 152.78 so I just put this in spam.whitelist.rules
From:   152.78. yes
FromOrTo: default no

At 03:04 15/03/2003, you wrote:
>I had a problem when I first installed MailScanner and Spamassassin with
>replies to e-mail I sent, all the replies would have the
>{Spam?} added to the subject even though the scores were low (below 5) and
>they were not marked as SPAM in the header.  I turned on
>the Auto Whitelisting feature and this stopped.  However, what was odd is
>if I turn off spam filtering for low or high scored
>e-mails and then turn it back on again (never changing the auto whitelist,
>it is still turned on) then I would have the same
>problem.  What I had to do is turn off SPAM filtering for both low and
>high and also turn off the auto whitelisting feature.  After
>I did that (of course I stopped and started MailScanner between config
>changes) I could then turn them all back on (low and high
>SPAM filtering and auto whitelisting) and it would start working again,
>meaning replies were not having {Spam?} added to the subject
>line (this took a while to figure out, I have assumed it is some kind of
>bug where something does not get set properly if you turn
>the individual settings on and off, but it does when you turn them all off
>then on).
>
>I heard some talk about adding 127.0.0.1 to the spam whitelist (i.e.
>/etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules), not sure if this
>would fix the issue or not.  I have not done anything unusual to the
>MailScanner config or Spamassasin config just to let you know.
>Other people must be having or have had this issue as well, what is the
>fix?  I really just want to make it so that all e-mail that
>is a reply is whitelisted (not marked as SPAM ever).  I wondering though,
>if this will cause issues with SPAM filtering in the
>future as SPAMMERS could likely make the e-mail appear to be a reply.
>
>I am using MailScanner 4.14-3 with SpamAssassin 2.50 patched (2.51?) to
>fix the bug where it has issues working with MailScanner.
>
>
>TIA,
>
>Donovan

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