Whitelists being ignored

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Apr 3 11:57:54 IST 2005


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Have you checked the X-MailScanner-From: headers to find the real sender
addresses? You need to provide the email envelope sender, not the
contents of the From: header.

G. Armour Van Horn wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm still having the same problem with this server ignoring my
> whitelists. The client forwarded five e-mails to me this afternoon, all
> with the {Spam?} tag in the Subject line. They were from four senders:
>
> online at tesco.co.uk
> sns_team at sweet-n-sour.com
> PCW at client17.email-bureau.co.uk
> miscops at misco.co.uk
>
> I went to add them to the whitelist, but I found that three of them had
> long been in spam.whitelist.rules, and had been for a month:
>
> From:   root at richmondsounddesign.com    yes
> From:   FaxToEmail at pacificcoast.net     yes
> From:   *@knmartin.co.uk        yes
> From:   newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca yes
> From:   online at tesco.co.uk      yes
> From:   updatemembers at SUITE101.COM      yes
> From:   ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org  yes
> From:   PCW at client17.email-bureau.co.uk yes
> From:   graceaudio at inter-business.com.ar        yes
> From:   SnS_team at sweet-n-sour.com       yes
> FromOrTo:       default         no
>
> I'm starting to feel like an idiot here. I've double-checked the paths
> to my rules, including posting those here last week (normally a sure why
> to catch a stupid typo). I need some way to track this down, please!
>
> Van
>
>
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