Listserv whitelisting: Reply-to header field?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 09:33:16 IST 2006


On 01/06/06, Brett Charbeneau <brett at wrl.org> wrote:
> > Look in your maillog for the envelope sender.  It may well be quite
> > different from the From: in the message itself.  You need to work with
> > the envelope sender and not the message sender.  Use the following
> > option to get it in the message headers of every email processed my MS:
> > Add Envelope From Header = yes
> >
> > When you have the envelope sender, use that value (maybe with wildcards)
> > in your whitelist rule.
>
>         I appreciate the reply, Denis!
>         I actually have that directive in my MailScanner.conf file already, but
> haven't looked at the envelope sender field. Interesting.
>         Would I list this as a simple "From:" statement in my
>
> /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules
>
>         file?

Yes again. Either the sending server IP address or the envelope sender
(as read from the logs) would do.

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