Confusion regarding whitelisting... (scan.messages.rules vs. spam.whitelist.rules?)

[Rick Tait]

Hi all,

I am suffering a little bit of confusion regarding whitelisting, and I am
hoping that someone can help me out. I'm sure its very simple.

I am trying to make sure that certain emails are NOT spam-checked (i.e.
whitelisted). It is my understanding that I can use the "Scan Messages"
directive for this. OK, so the email address I want to be whitelisted is:
jeffgund at infolist.com<http://gort.flamingangelfilms.com/sqmail/src/compose.php?send_to=jeffgund%40infolist.com>
.

So the appropriate parts of my MailScanner.conf are:

Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.messages.rules
Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules
Is Definitely Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.blacklist.rules

And in my /etc/MailScanner/rules/scan.messages.rules, I have the following
(which I understand tells MailScanner NOT to scan messages from this
address, but then scan all others):

From: jeffgund at infolist.com  no
ToOrFrom: default yes

Contents of /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules:
FromOrTo:       default         no

Contents of /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.blacklist.rules:
(empty)

I have restarted MailScanner, but the emails from this user are still being
marked as SPAM! From the headers I can see:

*X-MailScanner-SpamCheck:* spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=6.58,
     required 4.8, BAYES_40 2.00, HTML_40_50 0.50, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
     HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG 1.08, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.00,
     UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 3.00)

I am very confused as to why this is not being whitelisted. I initially had
a similar entry in /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules but that did
not seem to work either.

What am I doing wrong?

For simple whitelisting, i.e. please never check emails from foo at foo.com or
*@*.foo.com, what is the correct procedure? spam.whitelist.rules or
scan.messages.rules?

Thank you all in advance!

-Rick.
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