Look in sa-mimedefang.cf. That is where the white list values are.

what is happening is someone is spamming you with the return address in your white list (mostly this happens to me as my email address)

It would be really cool (though I have not figured a way) to use my local ip address block to be a white list; therefor spammers would have to spoof my lan to get a +100 on the spam score.


Sorry for an SA question on a MD list but google didn't turn up anything.

I just got a piece of spam with a low SA score. It would have been high except for a 
USER_IN_DEF_WHITELIST entry in the list which I didn't recognise.

grepping through my disk yielded that test in /usr/local/share/spamassassin (this is 
freebsd) in 20_head_tests.cf which is:

header USER_IN_DEF_WHITELIST    eval:check_from_in_default_whitelist()
describe USER_IN_DEF_WHITELIST  From: address is in the default white-list
tflags USER_IN_DEF_WHITELIST    userconf nice

Now, I found the check_from_in_default_whitelist function in EvalTests.pm (under 
perl/mail/spamassassin) but it's cryptic perl for my skill level and so that's a dead 
end.

Question. What is the "default" whitelist? Where and how is it set up? What mail header fields are matched 
to get it (looks like "from" if the description is correct but I couldn't tell from the function)? This 
email had a "from" that certainly wasn't anything I had explicity allowed and I don't use auto 
whitelisting.

Can anyone offer answers?

thanks!

-lee


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