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Re: whitelist_from and whitelst_from_rcvd

From: John Hardin <jhardin_at_nospam>
Date: Tue Mar 16 2010 - 15:16:08 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Ron wrote:

> On 3/16/2010 12:51 AM, John Hardin wrote:
>> Are you authenticating your users in any way? There are ways to
>> whitelist users who have authenticated against your MTA. Please check
>> the list archives and the Wiki.
>
> yes i am using vchkpw to auth users. are you talking about using
> whitelist_auth? i have tried using that coz i have spf defined on my
> domain, but i am not sure if whitelist_auth is for that.

No, it's not. It's not going to be quite as simple as a one-line
whitelist_* entry.

Can you post the Received: headers from a properly-suthorized mail sent by
one of your users from a dynamic IP address? I'll try to point out what
you need to write a rule to detect and subtract points for.

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