a clarification for Ignore Spam Whitelist rule

[Julian Field]

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John Baker wrote:
> Hello
>
> An organization who rents space from us over the summer had somebody 
> unwittingly send out a mass mail with ,I'm told, some 1000 recipients 
> under To: rather than Bcc: This got tagged by our mailscanner. I need 
> to be sure that none of our own bulk mail out ever gets ignored by the 
> whitelist.
>
> I saw this in the log:
>
> ignored whitelist, had 50 recipients (>20)
>
> In my MailScanner.conf this is set to the default:
>
> Ignore Spam Whitelist If Recipients Exceed = 20
>
> So I'm looking for two points of clarification here if anyone can help.
>
> 1: Does this rule only trigger if the recipients are in the To: field 
> and ignore recipients in the Ccc: or Bcc fields?
It counts recipients, it doesn't look in the headers. So no, it does not 
specifically ignore recipients in the Cc: or Bcc: fields.
>
> 2: where does the 50 come from here? Is is just how many postfix or 
> mailscanner would consider at a time?
Yes.
>
> Thanks

Jules

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