Messages being tagged as spam

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Mar 27 12:05:03 GMT 2004


At 06:30 27/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi All.
>
>I've got a few messages being tagged as spam and can't for the life of me
>figure out why. Here is the message header, and the appropriate entry from
>my /SpamAssassin/rules/spam.whitelist.rules file.
>
>Return-Path: <newsletter at needitnow.com.au>
>Received: from exchange.travelmate.com.au (exchange.travelmate.com.au
>[203.63.129.206])
>  by thumper.tmisnet.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2N0DxoC064106
>  for <valerie at tmisnet.com>; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:14:00 -0800 (PST)
>  (envelope-from newsletter at needitnow.com.au)
>Received: from mail pickup service by exchange.travelmate.com.au with
>Microsoft SMTPSVC;
>   Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:16:34 +1100
>From: <Newsletter at needitnow.com.au>
>To: <valerie at tmisnet.com>
>Subject: {Spam?} Hotel Bargains from Need It Now
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:16:34 +1100
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>  boundary="----=_NextPart_000_C996_01C410C8.4CEEAB70"
>X-Priority: 3
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>Importance: Normal
>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
>Message-ID: <EXCHANGEoO0Zya1cXi900013c34 at exchange.travelmate.com.au>
>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Mar 2004 00:16:34.0546 (UTC)
>FILETIME=[199D2D20:01C4106C]
>X-tmisnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact TMISNET for more information
>X-tmisnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-tmisnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=9, required 7,
>  BODY_LOWEST_PRICES 2.82, HTML_20_30 1.16, HTML_MESSAGE 0.10,
>  NO_REAL_NAME 0.82, PRIORITY_NO_NAME 0.46, TO_BE_REMOVED_17 3.57)
>X-tmisnet-MailScanner-SpamScore: 9
>X-UIDL: LWQ!!QDE"!T'~!!*-U!!
>Status: RO
>X-Status:
>X-Keywords:
>X-UID: 38
>
>----------
>
>Entry from spam.whitelist.rules (there are tab delimiters in the file)
>
>From:  @needitnow.com.au  yes

Try changing that to either
From: needitnow.com.au yes
or
From: *@needitnow.com.au yes


>-----------
>
>My understanding of the workings say that this should be marked as exempt
>and not even scanned. Am I wrong?
>
>I do see some things exempted and others not. Do we need an * in front of
>the @domain.ext?
>
>Thanks
>
>gib
>
>
>
>      Gib Gilbertson Jr.
>     Tierramiga Info Systems
>      619-287-8647 Support
>      http://www.tmisnet.com
>      San Diego's "Friendly ISP"

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