Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the only reason why this got through was they put one of my email > address in the From, in quotes. i'm no RFC822 or whatever expert, but > that seems like it shouldn't get tagged by the USER_IN_WHITELIST test.
Perhaps, but even if it didn't match addresses that weren't really addresses, the spammer could just as well have put your address in the "From:" line without quotes. In fact, I'd say that's a lot more common than the quoted version you're reporting. Whitelisting your own address, or any addresses at your domain, is generally a bad idea, since you will end up whitelisting a lot of spam. One alternative is to have mail that's actually from local users not go through SpamAssassin at all. The details of how to do that depend on your mail system. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC
