Curious about USER_IN_WHITELIST

[Diane Rolland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 1:55 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Curious about USER_IN_WHITELIST
>
> I'd also point out that it's not likely due to anything in
> /usr/share/spamassassin either, unless you've added rules
> there which you should not. All of the default whitelist
> entries should show up as USER_IN_DEF_WHITELIST in modern
> versions of SA (2.6x and 3.0).
>
>
> USER_IN_WHITELIST will ONLY result from matching a
> whitelist_from or whitelist_from_rcvd command. SpamAssassin,
> as shipped in 2.60 and higher, contains none of these and
> they must be added by the end user. You'll need to check
> /etc/mail/spamassasin/*.cf and
> /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>

I have SA 2.55 (as pre-installed on my RedHat Enterprise 3).  I'll probably
need to update that sometime....

I have not added any rules to SA.

The message was actually genuine; I just wanted to understand it, because it
raised a big Red Flag for me.

Thanks for the info!,
Diane

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