How do I whitelist mail from internal processes?

[Julian Field]

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On 5 Feb 2006, at 21:38, MailScanner discussion wrote:

> Rather than flooding the list with noise I thought I'd thank you
> privately so:
>
> Thank You!
>
> I can't imagine getting such a quick and helpful response from any  
> other
> authors of other software I use.
>
> Thank you for all your hard work and for an exceptional piece of  
> software.
> Regards,
>
> Alex Pimperton
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>> Alex Pimperton wrote:
>>> I went to whitelist 127.0.0.1/my external IP but after checking the
>>> headers I realised there's no IP address I can whitelist as the  
>>> headers
>>> are misssing the "Received: from" part.
>>>
>>> My headers look like:
>>>
>>> Delivered-To: root at erus.co.uk
>>> Received: by mail.erus.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 0)
>>>     id CB681581D5; Sun,  5 Feb 2006 00:31:25 +0000 (GMT)
>>> To: root at erus.co.uk
>>>
>>> How can I whitelist email that comes from internal processes
>>> (LogWatch,Cron etc) without having to whitelist all email that  
>>> arrives
>>> for root?
>>>
>> Don't worry, MailScanner doesn't use the headers, it gets the IP from
>> the envelope, and puts in 127.0.0.1 if there isn't one. So if the MTA
>> is invoked locally, the ip address will be 127.0.0.1.
>>
>> MailScanner will take pretty much any form of netword address you can
>> come up with, so
>> From:   127.0.0.1   no
>> FromOrTo: default   yes
>> should work just fine.
>>
>
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