Whitelist versus Scan Messages

[Ed Bruce]

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Playing around with various settings using MailWatch/MS whitelist and 
the new Scan Messages (SM) setting in MS. I had 127.0.0.1 in the 
whitelist but took it out after adding it to a rule file pointed to by 
SM. The problem I noticed is that spam notification email generated via 
a "Spam Actions" rule by MS is still sent thru SA and many times 
contains enough of the original message that it gets marked as spam 
thereby not getting delivered.

Further with this setting email I release thru MW is marked as clean 
because of the SM rule set to no for 127.0.0.1. I added back a white 
list entry for 127.0.0.1 so spam notification emails make it to the end 
user. My scan.messages.rules are:

From:            127.0.0.1      no
FromOrTo:   default           yes

I was expecting the above rule to negate me having to add 127.0.0.1 to 
the whitelist???

Hope this makes sense, end of work day and getting ready to fight the 
commute home.

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