By-user whitelisting

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 9 13:40:18 IST 2004


At 13:21 09/06/2004, you wrote:
>Julian, I'm loving this by-user whitelisting feature but I've had a few
>problems crop up.  Here are the headers for one that keeps getting nailed
>as spam:
>
> >From list at myucomics.com Wed Jun  9 08:14:01 2004
>Return-Path: <list at myucomics.com>
>Received: from alpha.dickinson.edu by falcon.dickinson.edu
>     (8.8.8/1.1.22.3/25Feb99-0911AM)
>         id CAA0000031331; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:45:41 -0400 (EDT)
>From: <list at myucomics.com>
>Received: from myucomics.com by alpha.dickinson.edu
>     (8.11.1/1.1.29.3/19Aug03-0302PM)
>         id i596jQI0000250341; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:45:26 -0400 (EDT)
>Message-Id: <200406090645.i596jQI0000250341 at alpha.dickinson.edu>
>To: newcomer at dickinson.edu
>Date: 09 Jun 2004 01:34:12 CDT
>Subject: Your FoxTrot 06/09/04
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>Errors-To: errors at myucomics.com
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>X-umail: .95d
>X-remotehost: ALPHA.dickinson.edu
>X-mailid: <1086762852.newcomer at dickinson.edu>
>X-Dickinson-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more
>     information
>X-Dickinson-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-Dickinson-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=6.3, required
>3,
>         BAYES_44 -0.00, FU_FREE 0.10, HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE 0.10,
>         HTML_FONT_BIG 0.27, HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_04 1.05, HTML_MESSAGE 0.10,
>         MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.32, MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT 3.03, MY_HTML_OBFU 0.33,
>         MY_SHRT_IMG 0.85, NO_REAL_NAME 0.16)
>X-Dickinson-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssssss
>X-MailScanner-From: list at myucomics.com
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by alpha.dickinson.edu
>     id i596jQI0000250341
>
>
>My personal whitelist in /usr/local/MailScanner/spam.bydomain/whitelist
>contains the entry "list at myucomics.com" but it's not being whitelisted.  My
>only other clue is in the mail log:
>
>Jun  9 02:45:27 alpha sendmail[250341]: i596jQI0000250341:
>from=<list at myucomics.
>com>, size=7780, class=0, nrcpts=2,
>msgid=<200406090645.i596jQI0000250341 at alpha.
>dickinson.edu>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=SMTP, daemon=Daemon0,
>relay=mailmaster.
>uclick.com [198.247.208.89]
>Jun  9 02:45:41 alpha sendmail[250004]: i596jQI0000250341:
>to=newcomer at falcon.di
>ckinson.edu, delay=00:00:15, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtpl, pri=157780,
>relay=fa
>lcon.dickinson.edu. [172.16.33.250], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (CAA0000031331
>Message
>  accepted for delivery)
>
>Do I need to whitelist the relay site in order for this to work?  I know
>it's only a comic in this instance but, if we really start using this
>personal whitelisting feature, this will become a larger issue with other
>messages later on.  Thanks in advance.

What is the name of the file containing the by-user whitelist? Have you
also tried just using a by-domain whitelist?
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Julian Field
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