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

[Donovan Huff | HUFF DATA SYSTEMS]

Is there a way for a user to say forward e-mail that they wish to be whitelisted automatically?  How about for blacklisting?  Can
they forward and e-mail from themselves to say user-whitelist at domain.tld (where user at domain.tld is the normal password) or anything
like this?  Someone had given me the impression that this was an option, but I did not see it in the config.

Donovan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: How is SPAM filtering turned off for reply e-mail? Also, reply issues...


> 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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