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[Spicer, Kevin]

Don Newcomer wrote:
> I had forwarded this message to the SA list but it seems more
> appropriate to address this issue here.  I've had "dickinson.edu" in
> my spam.whitelist.rules file for some time now and, more frequently
> lately, I'm getting spam e-mails with forged headers that are being
> whitelisted. This one, for instance, has my address as the return
> path.  I thought that maybe I could use the valid IP blocks for our
> site but that doesn't always work either (our WebMail server and my
> UNIX box don't put the IP address in the headers).  I could put a
> ruleset on "Spam Checks" but I don't think that will make any
> difference either.  How can I prevent legitimate e-mail from any of
> our local boxes from being labeled as spam?  On a related note, if I
> do it with a whitelist, it doesn't appear that "Ignore Spam Whitelist
> If Recipients Exceed" will handle a ruleset.  It's common for our
> students to e-mail 30, 40, 50, or more people at once and this
> _should_ be whitelisted.  *sigh*  

Use Ip addresses or netblocks (CIDR notation) or regular expressions to match the IP's of your local machines, rather than domain names.



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