Releases messages from quarantine rejoin quarantine

Jason Voorhees jvoorhees1 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 17:15:35 GMT 2009


Hi:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/27 Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi people:
>>
>> I'm using MailScanner and MailWatch. Everything is OK, spam messages
>> are going to quarantine. But when I try to release a message from
>> quarantine (a false positive) the message joins again the quarantine.
>> Mailwatch shows me that the message now is coming from
>> postmaster at mydomain.com to original-recipient at mydomain.com
>>
>> I'm using the QUARANTINE_USE_SENDMAIL (true) setting in conf.php of
>> Mailwatch configuration, so I think MailScanner see these released
>> messages coming from their original sender and IP address but doesn't
>> understand that is coming from localhost (trough sendmail binary).
>>
>> What exception rule can I create to always allow quarantine released
>> message to pass? I tried adding a from mydomain.com to mydomain.com
>> whitelist setting but it doesn't work... because of the sendmail
>> binary way of releasing.
>>
>> Could someone give any ideas? Thanks, bye
> Whitelist 127.0.0.1
>
I also did this, it doesn't work... because I think that the message
isn't originated from 127.0.0.1, the original message is requeued
using sendmail so headers aren't modified.

Am I wrong maybe?

> Cheers
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