mailscanner and SMTP AUTH

Radu Spineanu radus at smartpost.ro
Fri Aug 4 19:22:01 IST 2006


Hi

For postfix i think "smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header" is needed which
was added in 2.3.

Radu

Christian Kowarzik wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This works for sendmail received headers (we use sendmail 8.12.11-4 on
> RHEL3) as sendmail adds the word "authenticated" (and more) to the
> received header if the email was received using smtp-auth.
> 
> For the format of your received header, look for "HReceived:" in your
> your sendmail.cf or for "confRECEIVED_HEADER" in your sendmail.mc.
> 
> Christian
> 
> Christian Kowarzik schrieb:
>> Hi
>>
>> I use the following spamassassin rules in my
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf to decrease the spamassassin score for
>> email senders using smtp auth:
>>
>>
>> header          __OUR_AUTH              Received =~ /authenticated .*
>> by smtp\.xxx\.de/i
>> header          __NOT_OUR_AUTH          Received !~ /authenticated .*
>> by smtp\.xxx\.de/i
>> meta            INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH     __OUR_AUTH && ( __NOT_OUR_AUTH
>> == 0)
>> describe        INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH     Initially received by us using
>> authentication
>> tflags          INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH     nice
>> score           INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH     -20
>>
>> First I test that the email was received using smtp-auth and second i
>> test that there exists no "non-authenticated" received lines in the
>> email header.
>> So if both conditions are true I know that my email server initially
>> received that email and the sender is authenticated.
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> Radu Spineanu schrieb:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Can mailscanner be configured to ignore all checks for messages sent via
>>> smtp auth?
>>>
>>> In my current setup, when i try to send an email from home using SMTP
>>> AUTH it's marked as SPAM because if fails SPF and some RBL checks (ip
>>> block was added in rbls as it's used for home use).
>>>
>>> Radu



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