Reason for whitelisting?
Richard D Alloway
ralloway at winbeam.com
Thu Jul 19 16:50:50 IST 2007
>Matt Kettler wrote:
>>
>Richard D Alloway wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>
><snip>
>> 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,
>
><snip>
>
>>
>> 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?
>
>Take a look at the file pointed to by your "Is Definitely Not Spam" setting in
>MailScanner.conf.
>
>By default this would be /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules
Thanks, Matt, but that is one of the config files that I've already searched
through and found nothing matching.
-Rich
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