4.29.7: whitelist syslog chatter

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Thu Apr 1 23:11:57 IST 2004


Jeff Earickson wrote:
> Julian,
>    Just upgraded from 4.29.3 to 4.29.7, and started noticing
> a lot of:
>
> Message i31KrCIA028385 from 137.146.197.203 ... is whitelisted
>
> and I found this feature improvement noted in the ChangeLog.
>
> Since I have a whitelist entry for my class B netblock, ie
>
> From:   137.146.    yes
>
> then this new feature will generate a ton of meaningless chatter
> to my syslog.  Err, what was the motivation for this feature?
> Any way to shut it up???

Do you whitelist so outgoing mail will not be marked as spam? If so, why
not use the ruleset on "Spam Checks" instead and you will save some
resources?

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