whitelist rules are being overridden by the blacklist rules ?

[Venkata Achanta]

hello all,

I have the following rule set listed in blacklist.rules
From:   *@domain.com and To: *@domain.com   yes

( i want to disallow spoofing )


and i allowed this in whitelist.rules

From:   no-reply at domain.com   yes
To:     no-reply at domain.com   yes
(these are some administrative scipts e-mailing from that e-mail addy)


Here are the logs

Nov 15 14:36:12 host sendmail[26920]: iAFMaCJI026920:
from=<no-reply at domain.com>, size=902, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200411152236.iAFMaCJI026920 at host.domain.com>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=host [127.0.0.1]
Nov 15 13:52:02 host MailScanner[29537]: Message iAFLldov018164 from
127.0.0.1 (no-reply at domain.com) is whitelisted
Nov 15 13:52:02 host MailScanner[29537]: Message iAFLldov018164 from
127.0.0.1 (no-reply at domain.com) to domain.com is spam (blacklisted)
Nov 15 13:53:18 host sendmail[24290]: iAFLldov018164: to=<johnq at domain.com>,
delay=00:05:39, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=120902,
relay=[192.168.1.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (
<200411152147.iAFLldov018164 at domain.com> Queued mail for delivery)


Why is MS marking it as spam when it is whitelisted.Its looking at
whitelist.rules and says its whitelisted but then its looking at blacklist
and marking it as spam.

I thought whitelist should take precedence over blacklist.Am i wrong here or
am i missing something ?


Please advise.

Thanks much,
Venkata Achanta

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