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
> > >
> > >
> > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and
> 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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> >
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> >
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