Whitelist not working

[Tony Clark]

I'm a bit lost.  It's not just the spam.whitelist.rules, it's the 
whitelist functionality in  MailWatch and MailScanner.

Does anyone know what file is updated if I add a whitelist entry in 
MailWatch for MailScanner?

The whitelist inside MailWatch is not working at all.

Thanks

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On 8/24/2015 10:57 AM, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> I've found this in Config.pm (MailScanner version 4.85.2):
>      # No rule matched, so return the default
>      #print STDERR "Returning default as nothing matched.\n";
>      return $Defaults{$name};
> ...
>      # Return the results if there were any, else the defaults
>      return join(" ", @results) if @results;
>      return $Defaults{$name};
>
> So the default clause can appear anywhere in the rules file. But other rules are a first match:
>      # It's a first-match rule
>
> Denis
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] De la part de Denis Beauchemin
> Envoyé : 24 août 2015 10:52
> À : MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Objet : RE: Whitelist not working
>
> Could it be a first match rule EXCEPT for the default clause that will only match if no other rule match?
>
> Denis
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] De la part de Mogens Melander Envoyé : 24 août 2015 10:42 À : mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Objet : RE: Whitelist not working
>
> If that's the case, it makes no sense to me.
>
> I believe this is a first match fires rule, which makes position important, and explains why yours not work.
>
> On Mon, August 24, 2015 14:57, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>> Martin,
>>
>> I have many rules files with default rules at the beginning of the
>> files and they work just fine. Also I couldn’t find any warning about
>> this in the /etc/MailScanner/rules/README file that explains how to
>> use rules so I have to assume there is no such requirement.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> De : MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]
>> De la part de Martin Hepworth Envoyé : 24 août 2015 08:38 À :
>> MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Objet : Re: Whitelist not working
>>
>> Denis
>> You sure - Jules always used to say the rules files are treated liek
>> firewall rules, first line to hit as you work from top to bottom will
>> activate.
>> Unless, of course it changed while I've not bee following too much.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Martin Hepworth, CISSP
>> Oxford, UK
>>
>> On 24 August 2015 at 13:28, Denis Beauchemin
>> <Denis.Beauchemin at usherbrooke.ca<mailto:Denis.Beauchemin at usherbrooke.c
>> a>>
>> wrote:
>> This is not true: no need to put the default line last.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : MailScanner
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>]
>> De la part de Mogens Melander
>> Envoyé : 21 août 2015 23:33
>> À : MailScanner Discussion
>> <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner at lists.mailscann
>> er.info>>
>> Objet : Re: Whitelist not working
>>
>> The default should be last in the file.
>>
>> From: *@*.mydomain.com<http://mydomain.com>          yes
>> FromOrTo:       default         no
>>
>> On Fri, August 21, 2015 21:56, Tony Clark wrote:
>>>
>>> I cannot get any whitelist entries to work in MailScanner.
>>>
>>> I am updating the whitelist in MailWatch, but I am not seeing it get
>>> updated in spam.whitelist.rules
>>>
>>> I've tried manually updating spam.whitelist.rules, but every time I
>>> send a test SPAM, it gets blocked as spam.
>>>
>>> Here are my file contents:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> spam.whitelist.rules:
>>>
>>> # If you are basing a blacklist on this then you can refer to # a
>>> null
>>> (empty) sender address with "/^$/" as the address to match.
>>> #
>>> # This is where you can build a Spam WhiteList # Addresses matching
>>> in here, with the value # "yes" will never be marked as spam.
>>> #From:          152.78.         yes
>>> #From:          130.246.        yes
>>> #From:          host:soton.ac.uk<http://soton.ac.uk> yes # Note this is
>>> slower than using the
>>> IP
>>>
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