How did this spam make it through?

[Kai Schaetzl]

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Jeff Falgout wrote on         Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:00:15 -0700:

> Did this spam get whitelisted because it saw it's ip address somewhere in 
> the first Recieved line and thought it came from itself?
>

Hm, looks like it did, but shouldn't have happened. Would just be to easy to 
get in the whitelist. We block this type of message right at MTA level with 
a small sendmail recipe, google for "sendmail faked helo" or so.

Kai

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