White-list address ignored

[Jim Dickenson]

I found the problem.

I am in the process of moving our company email to Google Apps, not my idea
at all. In preparation for this move I stopped scanning on our gateway
system. I white-list email from our network but I did not want to white-list
stuff from our gateway so I added a line to the rule. I should have added it
at the end but not thinking of implications I did not. The effect was any
white-list after that line was ignored.

Thanks for listening ;)
-- 
Jim Dickenson
mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com

CfMC
http://www.cfmc.com/



> From: Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:56:24 -0700
> To: <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: White-list address ignored
> 
> on 4-22-2008 12:37 PM Jim Dickenson spake the following:
>> I am running:
>> 
>> This is CentOS release 4.5 (Final)
>> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
>> This is MailScanner version 4.58.9
>> 
>> 
>> I have this set:
>> 
>> Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In the rules file I have a line like this:
>> 
>> From:           addr at sbcglobal.net   yes
>> 
>> The three elements are separated with tabs
>> 
>> 
>> I got an email where the MailScanner-From header shows this address but it
>> was not white-listed.
>> 
>> I ran MailScanner --lint and did not have any errors.
>> 
>> What might cause this.
>> 
>> I see there is an argument --to=<address> and I thought maybe it test the
>> address against the various rule sets. I am not sure what the purpose of
>> that option is but it did not show anything what helped me figure out what
>> might be wrong.
>> 
>> Any ideas as to what to look at?
>> 
>> Thanks,
> Could this message have been to multiple people at your site?
> 
> If so, look at the following in your MailScanner.conf:
> 
> 
> # Spammers have learnt that they can get their message through by sending
> # a message with lots of recipients, one of which chooses to whitelist
> # everything coming to them, including the spammer.
> # So if a message arrives with more than this number of recipients, ignore
> # the "Is Definitely Not Spam" whitelist.
> Ignore Spam Whitelist If Recipients Exceed = 20
> 
> 
> 
> 
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