Whitelist problem

[Fractal IT Dept.]

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Matt Bullock wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>Sorry if this has been covered before, but I have a question regarding
>whitelisting.  Email generated by the server (virus alerts etc) are sent
>to my email address, but some of them get marked as spam.  I want to be
>able to whitelist everything coming from the server, but if an email is
>sent with a spoofed address of 127.0.0.1 it will automatically be
>whitelisted.  Is there a way around this?
>
>
Hi Matt,

Is it even possible for an external email to be spoofed to 127.0.0.1? I
don't think sendmail would allow that...or am I mistaken?

We do have 127.0.0.1 whitelisted on our server.

Cheers,
Chris

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