svn commit: rev 22836 - spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin

[qu...@apache.org]

Author: quinlan
Date: Mon Jul 12 00:38:41 2004
New Revision: 22836

Modified:
   spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm
Log:
whitelisting your own domain


Modified: spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm
==============================================================================
--- spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm	(original)
+++ spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm	Mon Jul 12 00:38:41 2004
@@ -242,7 +242,10 @@
 Used to specify addresses which send mail that is often tagged (incorrectly) as
 spam; it also helps if they are addresses of big companies with lots of
 lawyers.  This way, if spammers impersonate them, they'll get into big trouble,
-so it doesn't provide a shortcut around SpamAssassin.
+so it doesn't provide a shortcut around SpamAssassin.  If you want to whitelist
+your own domain, be aware that spammers will often impersonate the domain of
+the recipient.  The recommended solution is to instead use
+C<whitelist_from_rcvd> as explained below.
 
 Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns, so
 C<fr...@somewhere.com>, C<*...@isp.com>, or C<*.domain.net> will all work.