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

[Rick Tait]

On 7/16/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

Julian -- I appreciate your response sir!

> I am trying to make sure that certain emails are NOT spam-checked (
> > It is my understanding that I can use the "Scan
> > Messages" directive for this.
> If you use that, it will not virus-scan them either. If you just want to
> stop spam checks, use "Spam Checks" for doing this.


Understood, thank you for the clarification. I will definitely move back to
using Spam Checks for the whitelisting.

Check that the envelope sender address is really where the message is
> claiming to come from, for starters.


Yes, I already have done that -- I should have mentioned that in my initial
post to the list. It's definitely a legit email/sender. Here are the
relevant headers:

--- snip ---
From: Info List < jeffgund at infolist.com>
X-MailScanner: CLEAN
X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (not cached,
     score=6.958, required 4.8, BAYES_50 2.50, HTML_30_40 0.37,
     HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG 1.08, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.00,
     UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 3.00)
X-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssssss
X-MailScanner-From: root at www.infolist.com
--- snip ---

So that definitely does seem legit. And bear in mind what I have in my
whitelist file:

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

I'm stumped! By the way, this issue (whitelisting not working) does not seem
to be isolated to just this remote user. It does not appear to be working in
general. Everything else is working beautifully.

Thanks so much for your help in advance!

-Rick.
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