Whitelisting

[Scott Silva]

Paul Welsh spake the following on 10/11/2006 2:15 PM:
> I made some changes to the mailscanner.conf yesterday in order to help me
> establish why more spam is getting through.  
> 
> I discovered that because my spam.whitelist.rules file contains domains
> hosted on my server, spam from spoofed addresses that use one of my server's
> domains are getting through so I've stopped MailScanner checking the
> spam.whitelist.rules file.  
> 
> I can see why this might lead to problems (if my customers send a message
> that gets wrongly tagged as spam).  
> 
> What are others doing?
> 
Use the IP address(es) of your server. That is much harder to spoof.


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