thanks for the response and the advice. unfortunately it's a mail forwarding system that i'm part of that i'm trying to whitelist (alumni email forwarding) so the mail is not actually local. i guess i'll think about this more deeply.
B On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Keith C. Ivey wrote: > 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 > >
