Whitelist issue

[Glenn Steen]

Cc ram, whitelisting ones own should be done by way of IP address. Be
specific for the printer, or your network.

On 05/07/07, ram <ram at netcore.co.in> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 12:08 +1000, Vivek Mittal wrote:
> > Sorry, if some people receive this twice.  I sent this yesterday and
> > have not seen it show up in the list yet.
> >
> > ------------Previous message-----------------
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have been using MailScanner for about 6 months now and it is
> > working really well.  We have seen that 70% of our incoming mail is
> > spam and of that, 80% is classed as High Spam, so it is helping us
> > filtering a large part of our mail.
> >
> > In the last six months, we have noticed that even the mail classed as
> > Low Spam is 99.99% spam.  The 0.01% that is not spam is due to
> > documents scanned and emailed from our printer.  We have tried to
> > whitelist the address, but it does not work.  I hope someone can help
> > in determining the cause.
> >
> > My spam.whitelist.rules file contains the following entries
> >
> > From:           *@*.abc.com     yes
> > From:           *@*.xyz.com.au   yes
> >
> > where xyz.com.au is our firm.  Now, emails from abc.com are
> > whitelisted, but emails from our printer (printer at xyz.com.au) are not.
> >  Below is a sample header as stored in the Mailscanner archives (with
> > some stuff modified)
> >
>
> As a gerenral practice you should not whitelist your own domain. Unless
> you have ways of preventing people forging your domain at the MTA ( like
> SPF )
>
> Do you have in MailScanner.conf
> ---
> Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules
> ---
> Is whitelisting intermittently failing or failing every time?
>
> Thanks
> Ram
>
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