mailscanner whitelist (SQLWhitelist)

[Ken A]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 5-5-2009 8:57 AM Ken A spake the following:
>> Steve Freegard wrote:
>>> Ken A wrote:
>>>> Miguel Angel Nieto wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the whitelists configured with MailWatch:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is Definitely Not Spam = &SQLWhitelist
>>>>>
>>>>> Mailscanner reads the whitelist:
>>>>>
>>>>> May  5 13:57:16 eksmtp01 MailScanner[26158]: Whitelist refresh time
>>>>> reached May  5 13:57:16 eksmtp01 MailScanner[26158]: Starting up SQL
>>>>> Whitelist May  5 13:57:16 eksmtp01 MailScanner[26158]: Read 89
>>>>> whitelist entries
>>>>> But Mailscanner scans the message with Spamassassin, and It shouldn't
>>>>> happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> What i'm doing wrong?
>>>> Nothing. That is normal behavior. Whitelisting does not exclude a
>>>> message from SA scanning. It doesn't apply the MailScanner SA rules to
>>>> the message, so even if it scores above your 'high' threshold, it will
>>>> not be spam tagged or quarantined or whatever.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to exclude a message from scanning, you need to use the "Use
>>>> SpamAssassin" instead, or even "Spam Checks". Read the config file.
>>>>
>>> That's not quite correct.
>>>
>>> Set 'Always Include SpamAssassin Report = No' and MailScanner will not
>>> run SA for messages that are whitelisted.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Steve.
>> Ah, that's a simpler to change, no ruleset required. Maybe I need to
>> read the config file again. It's been a couple years.  :-)
> 
> That's OK, because the version you are running is a couple of years old
> anyway. It looks to have been written in January of 2006. MailScanner has made
> some very large strides since then. You might think about upgrading.
> 
> 
> 
> 

um.. no. Not sure where you get that idea. You must have me confused 
with the person who started the thread.

I've done about 25 upgrades since Jan 06. I average about 10 a year, 
almost keeping pace with Julian. I wish I had more time to do beta 
testing, but I seem to 'think' I'm going to have more time than I 
actually do.

Ken

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