SMTP-AUTH mail being marked as spam

[Valmiki N. Ramsewak]

Thank you Julian... I just returned back home and was ready to write a  
custom function as you described below...

Just did as you said in postfix, and it works great, my mail is no  
longer marked as spam... Hopefully postfix does its part now , which  
I'm sure it will :)

Valmiki

On Apr 27, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Julian Field wrote:

>
>
> Valmiki N. Ramsewak wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 	I run the latest version of mailscanner and postfix 2.3.6.  I
>> send mail from my laptop, via the mail server. I have SMTP-AUTH  
>> enabled
>> so only credentialed users can send. However any mail sent this way  
>> is
>> being marked as spam. This happened to me before and I realized the
>> problem was I wasn't having postfix add the (authenticted user = xyz)
>> line in the mail headers, so I included that and it worked. Now I'm  
>> not
>> sure what the problem is.
>> 	If I login to my my mail server and send mail from mutt it works
>> just fine and doesn't mark it as spam.
>>
>> I do want mailscanner to scan the mail, just not mark authenticated  
>> mail
>> as spam, but check for viruses.
>>
>> The spamassassin score is -ve.. but it says its being marked as spam
>> because of spamhaus-ZEN. Granted I'm on a DSL connection with dynamic
>> ip, so I have no control over what my ip address is when I reconnect.
>>
> You can't use a blacklist that includes dial-up dynamic addresses on  
> your server, connect from a dial-up dynamic address, and not expect  
> to get blacklisted. Simple logic :-)
>
> Can you move your blacklist checking into your MTA and have Postfix  
> not apply blacklist checks to authenticated SMTP connections?
>
> By the time MailScanner gets at it, it doesn't know whether you were  
> authenticated or not (but you could write a simple Custom Function  
> to set the "Spam List" setting to different values depending on the  
> first header in the message, and look for the signs that your mail  
> server thinks you are authenticated).
>
> Jules
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