Whitelist not working

[Jerry Benton]

Tony,

Perhaps the Mailwatch guy will answer you. (He is subscribed to this list.) Note that Mailwatch is not a part of MailScanner, which is what this list is for. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Aug 26, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Tony Clark <tclark at clarktechnical.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> 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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>>> Mogens Melander
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>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>> Mogens Melander
>> +66 8701 33224
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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