Hotmail Whitelisted {Scanned}

technical coordinator tc at SHENANDOAH.K12.IN.US
Fri Apr 16 20:23:36 IST 2004


Derek,
 
I hope that is it.  I have been searching for too long.
 
Dale

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Derek Winkler [mailto:dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM] 
	Sent: Fri 4/16/2004 1:42 PM 
	To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: Hotmail Whitelisted {Scanned}
	
	

	Look in your whitelist...
	
	From:  *@*tmail.com                       yes
	
	Yep that's it, you probably want another dot in there or something.
	
	I never put in wildcard entries like this, dangerous.
	
	Put in two:
	
	From:   *@*.tmail.com   yes
	From: *@tmail.com               yes
	
	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
	> Behalf Of technical coordinator
	> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 2:31 PM
	> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
	> Subject: Re: Hotmail Whitelisted {Scanned}
	>
	>
	> Please Julian,  Help.  I'm baffled.  Item comes in from a
	> forged hotmail account.  Whitelisted and blacklisted.
	> Labelled as high scoring spam on subject line and header
	> record.  High scoring spam is set to delete(which works on
	> everything except these items whitelisted).  But Items are
	> forwarded to end user.  But not in any whitelist.
	>
	>       -----Original Message-----
	>       From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
	>       Sent: Fri 4/16/2004 1:07 PM
	>       To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
	>       Cc:
	>       Subject: Re: Hotmail Whitelisted {Scanned}
	>
	>
	>
	>       Not sure whether this is helpful or not (I haven't read
	> the thread ---- try
	>       saying that when drunk :-)
	>       but MailScanner only uses the envelope addresses, not
	> the From: or To: headers.
	>
	>       At 19:02 16/04/2004, you wrote:
	>       >Well a run a test. First was to blacklist my work email in MS.
	>       >
	>       >X-Computer-Medic-MailScanner-Information: Please
	> contact the ISP for more
	>       >information
	>       >X-Computer-Medic-MailScanner: Found to be clean
	>       >X-Computer-Medic-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam (blacklisted)
	>       >X-MailScanner-From: dshaw at stbernard.com
	>       >Status:
	>       >
	>       >Looks like MS doesn't pass this to Spamassassin.
	>       >
	>       >Second test was to not blacklist in MS but in Spamassassin.
	>       >
	>       >X-Computer-Medic-MailScanner-Information: Please
	> contact the ISP for more
	>       >information
	>       >X-Computer-Medic-MailScanner: Found to be clean
	>       >X-Computer-Medic-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam,
	> SpamAssassin (score=100.5,
	>       >     required 3.5, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 0.50,
	> USER_IN_BLACKLIST 100.00)
	>       >X-Computer-Medic-MailScanner-SpamScore:
	>       >ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
	>       >
	>       >MS passes it Spamassassin and Spamassassin marks it.
	>       >
	>       >So I think the whitelisted mark is coming from a:
	>       >MailScanner.conf not pointing to the right whitelist.
	>       >or
	>       >MailScanner is reading the helo address or the
	> envelope address first.
	>       >
	>       >David
	>       >
	>       >
	>       >
	>       >--
	>       >Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
	>       >
	>       >
	>       >---------- Original Message -----------
	>       >From: technical coordinator <tc at SHENANDOAH.K12.IN.US>
	>       >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
	>       >Sent: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:41:03 -0500
	>       >Subject: Re: Hotmail Whitelisted {Scanned}
	>       >
	>       > > Mine is set to no.
	>       > >
	>       > >       -----Original Message-----
	>       > >       From: Mark Nienberg [mailto:mark at TIPPINGMAR.COM]
	>       > >       Sent: Fri 4/16/2004 12:25 PM
	>       > >       To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
	>       > >       Cc:
	>       > >       Subject: Re: Hotmail Whitelisted {Scanned}
	>       > >
	>       > >
	>       > >
	>       > >       On 16 Apr 2004 at 10:03, David Shaw wrote:
	>       > >
	>       > >       > This is Dale problem.... Not Speaking for
	> Dale but I think the
	>       >problem
	>       > >       > is, Why is MS marking emails from hotmail
	> as whitelisted when
	>       > >       > hotmail.com is in the whitelist. The logs
	> he posted show that
	>       > >       > hotmail.com is both whitelistes and
	> blacklisted. hotmail is not
	>       > > in the        > blacklist as well. But he does
	> forward spam to an account
	>       > > that is       > whitelisted?? Could account for the
	> whitelist??? But that
	>       > > doesn't       > answer way it is marked as blacklisted.
	>       > >
	>       > >       Just a thought, remember that SpamAssassin
	> has its own whitelisting
	>       > > system that is        separate from MailScanner's.
	> I think most of us
	>       > > turn it off (at least the     autowhitelisting
	> feature) with the
	>       > > following in MailScanner.conf.
	>       > >
	>       > >       # Set this option to "yes" to enable the
	> automatic whitelisting
	>       >functions
	>       > >       # available within SpamAssassin. This will
	> cause addresses from
	>       > > which you     # get real mail, to be marked so that
	> it will never
	>       > > incorrectly spam-tag  # messages from those
	> addresses.        SpamAssassin
	>       > > Auto Whitelist = no
	>       > >       --
	>       > >       Mark W. Nienberg, SE
	>       > >       Tipping Mar + associates
	>       > >       1906 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA  94704
	>       > >       visit our website at http://www.tippingmar.com
	>       > >
	>       > >
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	> dangerouscontent by
	>       > > Computer Medic's Email Server, and isbelieved to be clean of
	>       > > Viruses. Computer Medic would like to thank
	> MailScanner for theirsupport.
	>       > > Please contact support at computer-medic.us if you
	> have questions about
	>       > > this email.
	>       >------- End of Original Message -------
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