On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Justin Mason wrote:
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> Will McCutcheon writes:
> >I am running SpamAssassin 2.61 with Sendmail 8.12.8 using Procmail 3.22.
[snip..]
> >A's IP as being in an RBL of dynamic IP's, despite my setting in
> >/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf instructing it to trust that IP. The
> >documentation for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf seems to pretty clearly say
> >that RBL checks will never be performed on any trusted IP's, but it
> >certainly appears to be occurring here.
>
> Yep -- this is a case where it will occur. This is because the
> mail has gone *outside* of the trusted zone -- and the untrusted
> host B could be under the control of spammer who just forged a
> Received header to make it look like it came from the trusted
> host A. We can't trust that.
>
> Same for the next case btw.
>
> - --j.
Thus, if you -can- trust server 'B' add it to your trusted_networks
list, so the whole chain will be trusted and all will be well. ;)
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