Re[2]: Cannot whitelist this address

[Robert Menschel <Ro...@Menschel.net>]

Hello Tobin,

Wednesday, September 15, 2004, 7:24:42 AM, you wrote:

T> Thanks for your response. I tried whitelisting the spoofed address. And
T> then yes the IP which I know is porposterous but Im desparate. Then I
T> whitelisted the SMTP DNS name which is also wrong. Im lost as to what I
T> should do. 


T> whitelist_from		216.136.XX.XX
T> whitelist_from		mail.XXX.com
T> all_spam_to		TRACKERWEB@XXX.com

These are ADDRESS commands.  You can't whitelist a domain (mail.XXX.com),
you need to whitelist an address (spoof@mail.XXX.com).

Bob Menschel


>>>> Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com> 9/14/2004 7:02:59 PM >>>
T> At 05:11 PM 9/14/2004, Tobin wrote:
>>If anyone can help I thank you. I run SA on win32. We use a third
T> party
>>application which sends emails via SMTP from out DMZ to our
T> mailserver.
>>The email is generated with a spoofed name and then sent so the
T> headers
>>are partially fake. SA is detecting this and I cannot find anyway to
T> let
>>this email through. I have hand-fed it through as ham and also
>>whitelisted the spoofed address, the IP addres and nothing yet is
>>working. Could someone give me some insight?

T> Could you post an example of how you went about whitelisting the
T> address? 
T> Exactly?

T> I'm concerned you've got some problems understanding the config file 
T> format, as there's no way to whitelist an IP address in SA, so I'm 
T> concerned you're running around adding errors to your configfile and SA
T> is 
T> just spitting the whole thing out and ignoring it.

T> Can you run spamassassin --lint to check the config for errors?