Whitelisted when it shouldn't be

[Jeff Ellis]

Matt Kettler wrote:
> Jeff Ellis wrote:
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>> I chased down this issue earlier today on my server. Domains were
>> getting whitelisted from my "70_sare_whitelist_rcvd.cf" file. I had two
>> copies of the file -- one in
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin/70_sare_whitelist_rcvd.cf and one in
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/70_sare_whitelist_rcvd.cf. Not sure
>> which it was hitting but renamed both files and those domains are no
>> longer whitelisted.
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> That should not be the source of this problem. 70_sare_whitelist_rcvd.cf would
> cause SpamAssassin to think the message was whitelisted (ie: it would cause a
> rule hit of USER_IN_WHITELIST)
>
> This is MailScanner thinking it's whitelisted, which will not be related to any
> file in /etc/mail/spamassassin/.
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> Jeff: FWIW, the one in /etc/mail/spamassassin was the running copy. The one in
> the RulesDuJour sub-dir is a temp copy used when RDJ runs and downloads files.
>
> You should make sure that the whitelist file is no longer enabled in your RDJ
> config, otherwise the file will simply get installed again the next time you run
> RDJ.
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Thank you for the information. I have a _lot_ to learn yet about all
this and shouldn't jumped in so quickly. I changed my RDJ config so
those files won't be updated again and now I'll go back to lurking and
learning. :-)