what to do about spam allegedly from me?

Spicer, Kevin Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK
Fri Oct 17 16:19:41 IST 2003


Chris Yuzik wrote:
> I've been noticing some spam walks right by the spam filters because
> they forge the "from" header to appear as though it's me that sent
> it. The spam scores high enough to get tagged, but it's whitelisted
> because it's from me. 
> 
> Any thoughts?

Don't whitelist by domain for local domains, whitelist the IP of your mail servers (or your network range if users connect directly to the MailScanner server)



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