Forwarded mail lets spam through

[Matt Bullock]

Thanks for the replies, Karanbir and Ugo.

I am running SA with RBL's, URI's etc. and these others:

99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf  bigevil.cf                bogus-virus-warnings.cf
random.current.cf  spamcop_uri.cf
antidrug.cf          bigevil.cf.20040902-0008  evilnumbers.cf 


Regards,

Matt Bullock
Troika Networks, Inc.
Network Administrator
805.367.2728

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:51 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Forwarded mail lets spam through

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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