Steven Stern wrote:
> I'm having problems whitelisting mail sent through web sites with a from
> address supplied by the user.
>
> Case in point, I send an article from huffingtonpost.com to myself. I
> used a "whitelist from huffingtonpost.com", but that doesn't reduce the
> spam score.
The proper syntax would be:
whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note the presence of an underscore. It's whitelist_from, not whitelist
from.
That said, whitelist_from is evil and should be avoided whenever
possible. whitelist_from_rcvd is significantly better, as it takes two
parameters and checks both the From: header (easily forged) and the
Received: header generated by a trusted server (harder to forge).
The proper syntax for that would be:
whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] huffingtonpost.com
But this assumes that your SA is called after the Return-Path header is
added, and not before. If you're using a milter, this won't work, but if
you're calling from procmail, it will.
And *always* do the following when editing your configuration:
1) run spamassassin --lint. This should run and exit silently. If it
prints anything, fix the reported errors.
2) If you use the spamc/spamd pair, and have edited a .cf file, you
need to restart spamd for the changes to take effect.
