Why not white listed?

[Matt Kettler]

At 07:58 PM 10/31/2003, Jim Dickenson wrote:
>In /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules I have the following as the
>first line:
>
>From:           *@*.example.com    yes
>
>The following headers and change to the subject indicate to me that this
>rule was not observed with the following information. Can anyone explain why
>this might have still been flagged as spam?
>
> > From: person <person at example.com>

because *.example.com doesn't match example.com... your whitelist rule will
require two dots to be in the From: address.. but the email only has one.