Whitelist vs Spam List Precedence

[Mike McMullen]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Spicer" <kevins at BMRB.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Whitelist vs Spam List Precedence


> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 22:38, Mike McMullen wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Now, since their mailserver has been listed in ORDB,
> > it gets tagged immediately as spam.
> >
> > Given the data I have, it appears that Spam List over-rides
> > anything in the Whitelist ruleset.
> >
> > Am I correct in this thinking? And if not, is there a way to
> > get whitelist_from to overide the Spam List?
>
> I think it should do (but I could be worng...)  My hunch is that maybe
> you are trying to whitelist the address that appears in the headers but
> the real sender address (that appears in your maillog) is the one you
> need to whitelist.
>
Hi Kevin,

I checked that. The real sender address is what is whitelisted. I even
checked through a few days back of logs and see entries in mailscanner
for it being whitelisted and getting a score of -98. Then last night after
the mail server is listed in ORDB, the only message listed is message
stating it's in ORDB and is marked as spam.

Thanks,

Mike

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