MailScanner setting score ALL_TRUSTED 0???!!!! - Question for Jeff Earickson

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Quentin Campbell wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:46:45 -0000
> From: Quentin Campbell <Q.G.Campbell at NEWCASTLE.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner setting score ALL_TRUSTED 0???!!!! - Question for
>     Jeff Earickson
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list
>> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
>> Sent: 11 March 2005 03:30
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: MailScanner setting score ALL_TRUSTED 0???!!!!
>>
>> My final configuration, after getting the advice of others on this
>> list, and staring into my O'Reilly book on Spamassassin, was to
>> edit the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file, get rid of the
>> "score ALL_TRUSTED" line, and add in trusted_networks lines for
>> my trusted machines.  In my case:
>>
>> trusted_networks 127.0.0.1/32
>> trusted_networks 137.146.210.56/32
>>
>> Basically, I only trust my own mail server (the machine that
>> MailScanner and SA 3.0.2 is running on).  While we have a class-B
>> network, I don't trust any other machine on our network, and no
>> other machine in the network is a (valid) mail server anyway.
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>
> Jeff
>
> Are all the hosts on your Class-B network required to relay outgoing
> SMTP taffic via your mail gateway?
>
> Quentin

The MX record for everything in our class-B lists 137.146.210.56, so
in theory yes.  However spambots have a mind of their own.

Jeff

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