Whitelisted or Not?

[Julian Field]

Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Mogens Melander a écrit :
>> Hi list
>>
>> I just recieved a mail, from a whitelisted sender, containing
>> only a gif image. The image is ok, but i was curious about
>> the MCP and SA reports. MCP _always_ report score=0 unless
>> the required=5 is reached. Why don't i get the full MCP report,
>> as i do with SA ? I'm probably missing something basic :)
>>
>> Both MCP and SA report whitelisted, but SA is close to hitting
>> the required=5 spamscore. What will happen is it scores above
>> the required 5? Will the mail be allowed to pass as whitelisted, or ???
>>
>> Any clues, anybody?
>>
>> Here's the headers in question:
>>
>> X-TIT-GPH-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>> X-TIT-GPH-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean (MCP-Whitelisted),
>> MCP-Checker (score=0, required 5)
>> X-TIT-GPH-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted),
>> SpamAssassin (not cached, score=4.774, required 5, AWL -3.33,
>> BAYES_00 -1.00, DC_IMG_HTML_RATIO 1.00, DC_IMG_TEXT_RATIO 1.00,
>> HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_04 2.04, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
>> HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG 0.10, MIME_HTML_ONLY 1.46,
>> MISSING_HEADERS 1.29, SPF_PASS -0.00, TVD_SPACE_RATIO 2.22)
>>   
>
> Mogens,
>
> I don't know about MCP (don't use it), but if there is a rule in MS to 
> whitelist an email il will be whitelisted even if it gets a huge SA 
> score. Thus it will be delivered.
The only time the whitelisting (if you have done it with my default 
example spam.whitelist.rules) will be over-ridden is if it has lots and 
lots of recipients (as set by the "Ignore Spam Whitelist If Recipients 
Exceed = 20" in MailScanner.conf).

Jules

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