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

[Mogens Melander]

On Mon, July 16, 2007 23:35, Rick Tait wrote:
> 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 ---

If this is your white-list, i think you got it backwards,
not whitelisting jeffgund at infolist.com, but everything else.

>
> 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.
>


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Mogens Melander
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