On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Matthias Fuhrmann wrote:
> > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain
> > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 127.0.0.1
> > >
> > > and some more, but all failed.
> > > what went wrong, or does anyone know the correct pattern for
> > > whitelist_from_rcvd and mailman?
>
> thanks for your quick reply, but i guess i missed our configuration.
> we are using sendmail with miltrassassin as milter and spamassassin 3.1.0.
> So there is no MailScanner.conf. thnx anyway for your reply :)
>
> best regards,
> Matthias
Matthias,
What version of miltrassassin are you using? One of the problems with
whitelisting mailing lists is that most of them will change the
envelope-from address to reflect the list but not change the header-from
address, leaving it to point to the original poster.
Many mechanisms for calling SA do -not- make the envelope-from address
available for rule matching (including miltrassassin), thus the failure of
your whitelist_from_rcvd.
I ran into this problem a couple of years ago, when I first started
using spamassassin & miltrassassin. The answer was to modify miltrassassin
to have it add a 'Return-Path:' header to the data that it feeds to SA
so that SA would have the envelope-from address to work with.
All of a sudden whitelist_from_rcvd started working as I expected it to ;)
I've made several mods to miltrassassin, fixing bugs and adding
features that I felt were worth it. I tried to contact the original
author of the program to feed back my changes but was unsuccessful.
If you want to check it out, I can give you a copy.
Dave
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