AOL accounts trigger some weird rules. Suggestions please?

[Matt Kettler]

Steve Campbell wrote:
> I seem to be adding more and more entries into my whitelist tables due
> to that stupid AOL trailer that triggers the 'gappy text' and 'free
> access' rules.
> 
> Are there any suggestions or examples for dealing with this? I don't use
> the rules emporium stuff, just certain rules sets I add individually.
> Would there be any rule sets for this? Any with Meta rules that is
> catching this? Example of a Metarule that would void the two rules if
> from AOL (risky I guess).
> 
> Thanks for any help/suggestions/examples/criticism anyone would like to
> offer.

Do you have SPF support enabled? If so, the aol.com domain supports SPF so you
could just use a SPF based whitelist for aol.

whitelist_from_spf aol.com

It's a bit crude, but at least it's quite safe from forgeries. (ie: it will only
match mail sent from IP's that AOL claims it owns.)