SM wrote:
At 03:05 16-08-2006, Matthew Newton wrote:
I just received an e-mail that had been incorrectly marked as
hitting a block list (the SBL in this case, IIRC). The "culprit"
for this seems to be the following first Received header, where
a.b.c.d is the address on the BL:

Received: from [a.b.c.d] by web55501.mail.re4.yahoo.com via
 HTTP; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:34:33 BST

This seems wrong to me? However, my guess is that there is nothing
wrong with SpamAssassin, just that Yahoo shouldn't be adding a
Received header for a non-SMTP transaction (of course an

Section 3.8.2 (Received Lines in Gatewaying) mentions adding a Received header as trace fields for messages originating from non-SMTP environments. The above Yahoo.com Received line is correct.

Regards,
-sm

Yes, the received headers for webmail are much preferred over any other X-whatever headers.

I can't remember, or have time to look, what IPs in the received line are checked for SBL. We might check all of them for SBL. Usually I wouldn't want to receive any mail from someone in SBL. Of course dynablocks being listed in SBL throws that out the window.


Daryl

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