Whitelist vs Spam List Precedence

[Dan Farmer]

# This is the list of spam blacklists (RBLs) which you are using.
# See the "Spam List Definitions" file for more information about what
# you can put here.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Spam List = ORDB-RBL

Looks like you could create a ruleset to not do RBL checks on their
mail...

dan

On Apr 22, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Mike McMullen wrote:

> ----- 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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