SMTP-AUTH mail being marked as spam

[Julian Field]

Gerard wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:14:53 +0100
> Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> 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
>>     
>
> Are you the only user on the system? If so, just send via port 587. Do
> not allow Mailscanner to touch that port. You will still receive mail
> via port 25, which is scanned by Mailscanner. It is fairly trivial to
> set that up on a Postfix system.
>   
If you do that, you won't get any virus scanning either, which is rather 
a dangerous thing to do.

Jules

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