Reason for whitelisting?

Richard D Alloway ralloway at winbeam.com
Tue Jul 17 21:12:13 IST 2007


I am receiving some spam that should be getting flagged or deleted, but is 
being marked as "not spam (whitelisted)" by MailScanner.

When I look at the logs for the offending message, I see things like:

Jul 17 15:49:57 smtp-gateway-4 milter-ahead[2117]: 61096 
l6HJnjqf014254: cacheGet(b411110, 'robjulie at xxxxxxxx', {st=0, cn=1})
Jul 17 15:49:57 smtp-gateway-4 milter-ahead[2117]: 61096 
l6HJnjqf014254: cacheGet(b411110, 'rockwell at xxxxxxxx', {st=0, cn=1})
Jul 17 15:49:57 smtp-gateway-4 milter-ahead[2117]: 61096 
l6HJnjqf014254: cacheGet(b411110, 'rome74 at xxxxxxx', {st=0, cn=1})
Jul 17 15:49:58 smtp-gateway-4 sendmail[14254]: 
l6HJnjqf014254: from=<gadaandstelecommbef at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=1713, 
class=0, nrcpts=11, msgid=<924405758.55504416941907 at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [xx.xxx.xx.xx] (may 
be forged)
Jul 17 15:50:23 smtp-gateway-4 MailScanner[10318]: Message l6HJnjqf014254 from 
xx.xxx.xx.xx (gadaandstelecommbef at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is whitelisted
Jul 17 15:50:29 smtp-gateway-4 MailScanner[10318]: 
Message l6HJnjqf014254 from xx.xxx.xx.xx 
(gadaandstelecommbef at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to xxxxxxx is not 
spam (whitelisted), 
SpamAssassin (not cached, score=15.974, required 4, autolearn=spam, BAYES_99 
8.00, HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP 1.40, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10, URIBL_BLACK 
3.00, URIBL_JP_SURBL 1.50, URIBL_OB_SURBL 1.50, URIBL_SC_SURBL 0.47)
Jul 17 15:50:36 smtp-gateway-4 MailScanner[10318]: <A> 
tag found in message l6HJnjqf014254 from gadaandstelecommbef at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jul 17 15:50:37 smtp-gateway-4 sendmail[14848]: l6HJnjqf014254: 
to=<rome74 at xxxxxxxx>,<rockwell at xxxxxxxx>,<robjulie at xxxxxxxx>, delay=00:00:40, 
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=421713, relay=mail.xxxxxxxxx 
[xx.xx.xx.xx], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (ok 1184701833 qp 906)

None of the recipients, IP addresses, domain names, etc are in any of our 
configuration files at all.

How can I track down the exact part of the message that is triggering the 
whitelisting in MailScanner?

Thanks!

-Richard D Alloway
  Chief Technical Officer
  Winbeam Inc


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