Whitelisted messages tagged as spam

Matt Kettler mkettler at EVI-INC.COM
Thu Jul 15 23:13:30 IST 2004


At 05:05 PM 7/15/2004, Kevin Miller wrote:
>X-CBJ-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=6.303, required 5,
>         BAYES_01 -1.52, BigEvilList_305 3.00, DCC_CHECK 2.91,
>         HTML_60_70 0.11, HTML_MESSAGE 0.10, HTML_WEB_BUGS 0.34,
>         MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.32, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER 0.70, ORDER_NOW 0.35)
>X-CBJ-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssssss
>X-MailScanner-From:
>owner-nolist-alaska_gen-1922*paulette_sill**mail*-ci*-juneau*-ak*-us at airemot
>e1.aif1.com
>
>And in spam.whitelist.rules I have:
>From:           *@airemote?.aif1.com            yes
>
>If I understand it correctly, MailScanner looks at the envelope To: which is
>displayed in the X-MailScanner-From header.  Any clues what went wrong here?

Clearly it didn't match the whitelist entry, otherwise the header would say
it was whitelisted.

 From reading the docs I can't see any place claiming mailscanner
whitelists  support file-glob style use of ?, only they only support * in
that manner. However, they do support full blown perl regexes.

Try using a regex instead:

From:   /*\@airemote[0-9]\.aif1\.com/

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