AOL accounts trigger some weird rules. Suggestions please?

[Steve Campbell]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Kettler" <mkettler at evi-inc.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: AOL accounts trigger some weird rules. Suggestions please?


> 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.)

I do get hits that trigger the SPF rules, if I am reading you properly, and 
I am guessing this goes in my spam.assassin.prefs file. But won't this 
whitelist everything from AOL? Is that what you mean by crude? I would still 
like to have other rules apply.

Thanks for the idea. I'll look into this further.

Steve

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