Whitelist problem

[Scott Silva]

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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> MailScanner mailing list 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?
>
>
> We whitelist the server hostname for mail sent from root@ and postmaster@
> instead of the IP which works quite well
>
Aren't named addresses easily spoofed?
I seem to remember a virus trying to send false rejection messages that
said they were from postmaster at ourdomain.com. Of course the ip was *not*
  127.0.0.1

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