Whitelist from: problems

[Julian Field]

At 12:05 10/03/2004, you wrote:
>I have some problems with whitelisting a mailinglist.
>
>My setup:
>domain.com is whitelisted
>If I send a gtube message with return address "user at domain.com" I find that
>the headers say "not spam (whitelisted)" so it obviosly works
>
>The mailinglist's "live" messages still manage to get tagged as spam
>though. These headers show:
>"From: "Some Name"<list_ at domain.com"
>"To: <myuser at mydomain.com"
>
>Since From: says its from domain.com, it should have been whitelisted - but
>it isnt.
>
>I checked my logs and found that the from address was totally different
>than the one presented in the mail. I figure they use one address in "Mail
>from:" and another "From:" in the smtp negotiation.
>
>Is there a way to have MailScanner see the "first" from address and match
>this with the whitelist?
>
>Not sure if I make myself clear... try this and you'll see what i mean:
>"telnet yourmailserver 25" and type:
>ehlo whatever
>mail from: some.address at somewhere.com
>rcpt to: your.address at yourdomain
>data
>From: "Somename"<some.address at differentdomain.com>
>To: <your.address at yourdomain>
>Subject: testing
>hello!

The one that MailScanner uses in your example is
some.address at somewhere.com. It doesn't use some.address at differentdomain.com
at all.
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