On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, jdow wrote:

> Of course, for the spamassassin lists I found something like what I did
> in procmail is best:
>
> ---9<---
> :0 fw: spamassassin.lock
> * < 250000
> * !^List-Id: .*(spamassassin\.apache.\org)
> | /usr/bin/spamc -t 150
> ---9<---
>
> {^_^}

Ahh, I see.
OK spammers, to blast Jane with spam just forge a spamassassin.apache.org
List-Id header in your messages. It'll then waltz right past her filter. ;)

The whole reason for the complexity of whitelist_from_rcvd is the
work that it does to make it immune to header forgeries.


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