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List:       spamassassin-users
Subject:    Re: How do I whitelist mailling lists
From:       Matt Kettler <mkettler_sa () comcast ! net>
Date:       2006-04-16 15:38:57
Message-ID: 44426511.1040204 () comcast ! net
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Rob Tanner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I subscribe to a number of email lists on Yahoo and believe it or not,
> none of the lists I subscribe to have ever been spammed (at least not
> since I've been a subscriber).  However, I frequently get messages
> that Spamassassin thinks are SPAM.  Because the "From:" header on
> postings to the lists retain the original sender's email, I'm using
> whitelist_from_rcvd in local.cf to look at the received from header. 
> Yahoo has a number of different servers, so the actual config in
> local.cf is:
>
>            whitelist_from_rcvd *.yahoo.com
That will never match *anything*.. In fact, it should cause a parse
error. Whitelist_from_rcvd  takes TWO parameters, not one.

whitelist_from_rcvd doesn't just look at the received: header, it looks
at From: AND Received:. So pass it two parameters, the first one as a
pattern for From: the second to match the RDNS of the Received:.

Try this instead:
whitelist_from_rcvd *@* yahoo.com

Also, make sure your trust path is working. If SA isn't trusting the
right headers, it might ignore the one you need to check against.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/TrustPath/
>
> My understanding of whitelisting in Spamassassin is that it's sort of
> the inverse of golf handicapping, that is, the message starts out with
> a -100 score.
That is correct. And it actually shows up as a rule hit, ie:
USER_IN_WHITELIST -100.0
> But the Yahoo list messages are still coming in with scores or 0.0,
> 0.3, 0.7, etc.  My assumption is that the whitelisting isn't working. 
> What am I doing wrong? 
Passing the wrong things to whitelist_from_rcvd..

Be sure to check your files with spamassassin --lint. This should run
silently, but if you have config-file errors it will complain.
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