That is kind of what I was seeing in the log files, once it hit the whitelist_recipients, then it seemed that the mail was accepted, even if it was spam. Not sure where I saw it at, but I remember reading about putting all recipients into that whitelist.
On 6/13/2011 9:05 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: > ron wrote: >> Whats the consensus, good or bad idea to whitelist all email addresses >> within your company in spamdykes whitelist_recipients? > Wouldn't that be rather counter-productive? If you whitelist all > recipients at your company (and assuming that your mail server accepts > mail only for people at your company) then you've essentially switched off > spamdyke for all incoming mail. Or am I missing something? > > Whitelisting sender addresses at your company is also a poor idea, because > spammers like to forge mail to make it appear to come from someone at the > same domain. In other words, if the spammer's list includes > 'f...@example.com' and 'b...@example.com', they'll often send mail to > 'f...@example.com' with 'b...@example.com' in the 'From' line, and > vice-versa. > > Angus > > > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
