Whitelist works only for "Return-Path" field

[Joao Gazzoni <jo...@banrisul.com.br>]

Hello,

One message have these headers:
    From: Sucesu - RS <su...@rs.sucesu.org.br>
    Reply-To: sucesurs@rs.sucesu.org.br
    Return-Path: return@smartcrm.com.br

And the SA whitelist have this record:
    From: sucesurs@rs.sucesu.org.br yes

But SA action is:
    Jun 24 00:03:05 MailScanner[14910]: Message j5O31n4N016061 from
    (return@smartcrm.com.br) to mydomain.com is spam, (escore=14.85)

Why SA uses "Return-Path" field instead "From" field, to perform
whitelist checks? There is some whitelist configuration mistake?

Thanks for any suggestion.

Re: Whitelist works only for "Return-Path" field

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

Joao Gazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One message have these headers:
>     From: Sucesu - RS <su...@rs.sucesu.org.br>
>     Reply-To: sucesurs@rs.sucesu.org.br
>     Return-Path: return@smartcrm.com.br
> 
> And the SA whitelist have this record:
>     From: sucesurs@rs.sucesu.org.br yes

That's not a spamassassin whitelist entry. It's a mailscanner one.

SpamAssassin whitelist commands look like:
	whitelist_from sucesurs@rs.sucesu.org.br
or:
 	whitelist_from_rcvd sucesurs@rs.sucesu.org.br mailserver.sucesu.org.br

If your original rule is in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf, local.cf or any other
 SpamAssassin file. remove it.

If it's in your /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules, then you're fine,
but this becomes a MailScanner question, not a SA question.

> 
> But SA action is:
>     Jun 24 00:03:05 MailScanner[14910]: Message j5O31n4N016061 from
>     (return@smartcrm.com.br) to mydomain.com is spam, (escore=14.85)
> 
> Why SA uses "Return-Path" field instead "From" field, to perform
> whitelist checks? There is some whitelist configuration mistake?

SA does both, but SA isn't what you're configuring MailScanner is.

MailScanner only does the return path because MailScanner only examines the
envelope.

(Technically MailScanner uses the value that will go into Return-Path, but
before the Return-Path header is created)

> 
> Thanks for any suggestion.
> 
Move the discussion to the mailscanner mailing list if you have more questions
about mailscanner's whitelisting system.

If you've got questions about SA's whitelists, then follow up here.