From spamassassin-users  Mon Apr 17 00:36:03 2006
From: Rob Tanner <rtanner () cheshiresgrin ! net>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:36:03 +0000
To: spamassassin-users
Subject: Re: How do I whitelist mailling lists
Message-Id: <4442E2F3.2050709 () cheshiresgrin ! net>
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Matt,

Thanks.  That did the trick.

-- Rob

On 04/16/2006 08:38 AM, Matt Kettler wrote:
> 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.
>