White lists

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Envoyé : Sunday, September 28, 2003 2:45 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: White lists
> 
> 
> At 19:29 28/09/2003, you wrote:
> >On Sunday 28 September 2003 7:23 pm, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > >         I was playing with the whitelisting and I found 
> out that if I
> > > whitelist an address in the spam.whitelist.rules, 
> MailScanner doesn't
> > > perform RBL checks on the message.  However, when Use 
> Spamassassin = yes,
> > > the spamassasin tests are still performed.
> >
> >If you do this (whitelist in spam.whitelist.rules), and an 
> email arrives
> >which gets a high SpamAssassin score, does it still get 
> treated as spam, or
> >is it correctly passed as non-spam through because of the 
> whitelist entry?
> 
> spam.whitelist.rules is a ruleset applied to "Spam Checks" 
> which covers
> *all* spam checking, both RBLs and SpamAssassin. If "Spam 
> Checks" evaluates
> to "no" for a message, no spam checking is done, so it 
> doesn't matter what
> the SpamAssassin score might have been as it never gets 
> worked out in the
> first place.
> It's very simple: if "Spam Checks" = "no" for a message, then 
> that message
> is marked as not being spam and no spam checking happens.
> 
> However, if you ask to always get the SpamAssassin report, 
> SpamAssassin
> will be called so that you get the report you asked for. But 
> the result of
> SpamAssassin will be ignored as you requested that the 
> message be marked as
> not being spam.

Thanks, I removed the always get SpamAssassin report and I got my expected result.

Ugo