Forwarded mail lets spam through

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Matt Bullock wrote:

> I have an email address that is forwarded from another server to an
> email account that I host, and mail coming from this particular server
> never triggers the spam filter.  Is there a way to have mailscanner drop
> a known server from the headers to allow the spam filter to work more
> accurately?

What do you use for spam filtering?  That won't work if you only use
DNSBL.  Spamassassin should look at all the headers.

>
> Regards,
>
> Matt Bullock
> Network Administrator
> Troika Networks, Inc.
> 805.367.2728
>
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