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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > It's extremely trivial to add as a normal regexp rule:
> > 
> >     header MY_WHITELIST_1   Received =~ /\[111.222.11.22\]/
> >     score MY_WHITELIST_1    -5
> > Mikael Hakman writes:
> >> Wouldn't you all agree that blocking or letting through emails sent
> >> from or relayed by specified IP addresses and subnets is quite a
> >> basic functionality? In a sense it is more basic than doing the same
> >> with DNS names and SMTP addresses because all those names ultimately
> >> resolve to IP numbers. All communication (routing) on the Internet
> >> is done by numbers not by names. 
> >> 
> >> Then why can't we have such a generic rule built-in into SA?
> 
> As long as spammers don't know you trust 111.222.11.22, that works.
> But if they do, it's trivial for them to forge a Received: header that 
> includes a whitelisted host.
> 
> Ideally there'd be a way to only look at Received headers that were
> added by the server you're running on, or (going back a bit at a
> time) added by trusted perimeter hosts.  (I think SpamAssassin should
> always be running on a perimeter server, but that's another
> thread...)

see Matt Kettler's version ;)

- --j.
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