Getting spams via whitelisted domains

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Aug 25 19:18:00 IST 2010


on 8-25-2010 12:17 AM Milind Patil spake the following:
> Hi
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>                 We have recently implemented mailscanner with clamAV and
> sendmail we also have implemented the spam.whitelist.rules functionality.
> Recently we are getting some spam from the domains which have been marked in
> whitelist. How do we prevent this, one way is to add the mx server name of the
> domain which we want to whitelist instead of the domain name itself. But this
> solution involves keeping a track of the MX server changes for that domain.
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>                 I think earlier also people must have faced this problem, but
> was not able to find any proper solution.
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>                 Any suggestions.
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>                 Thanks in advance.
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> Regards
> 
> Milind Patil
> 
If you whitelist by name, you will get spam... You would need to whitelist by
ip address, or write custom spamassassin rules that fire on something they
have in their headers that is unique to them...



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