Overriding SBL+XBL on a DHCP address

[Scott Silva]

Andrew spake the following on 11/2/2006 4:32 AM:
> Hi,
> I have a DHCP address at home (with a dns name I update
> if it changes ... using my own script ...)
> My server running MailScanner has a fixed IP so it's no
> problem.
> (I also have an auto update process running at home, on
> the server sendmail access file)
> What happened recently (and I need to get a new lease to fix)
> is that my DHCP IP address showed up in SBL+XBL
> My home server does smart forwarding to my mail server
> Because of this, all my email was being dumped by the spam
> filter.
> I guess there is a simple solution to this problem?
> How can I whitelist my DHCP IP address?
> I did try whitelisting the name, but couldn't seem to get it
> to work without specifying the IP address by number (which is
> of course not much use)
> I tried listing my internal IP subnet first but that didn't
> work coz the spam filter seems to only check the previous
> IP address in the path list?
> Also, I'm using an old version of MailScanner: 4.38.10
> 
> Here's the edited whitelist file.
> It didn't work until the last line was added.
> 
> spam.whitelist.rules
> --------------------
> # This is where you can build a Spam WhiteList
> # Addresses matching in here, with the value
> # "yes" will never be marked as spam.
> FromOrTo:       default         no
> From:           /^192\.168\.ccc\./        yes
> From:   nam1.nam2.nam3.com       yes
> From:   /^aaa\.bbb\.xxx\.yyy/    yes
> 
> 
> -Thanks for any help
> 
Where are you using the blacklist? In MailScanner, spamassassin or the MTA.
You could also use some magic with sed to change the ip address in the
whitelist.rules and force a reload whenever the ip address changes.
Or have your server come in on a different port that doesn't have MailScanner
running.

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