Matt Kettler wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to whitelist control messages generated
by our list manager (Sympa) - which are generated on the localhost and
sent to addresses on the localhost.

In particular, here's a specific example:

*From: *   [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Received: * from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by
server1.neighborhoods.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDE2B6C2F0 for
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:22:18
-0500 (EST)


It's pretty clear that the entry in user_prefs would start with

whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

but what would I use as the domain part?
Actually, no..  it would not start like that... As written the "
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" would be interpreted as the Received:
header check.

Try:
whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] localhost.localdomain

Well that doesn't seem to work.  I also tried

whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] server1.neighborhoods.net
whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 127.0.0.1

I think the problem is that the reverse lookups don't match in any of these combinations (look closely at the headers):

*From: *   [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Subject: * ****SPAM*** Message diffusion*
*Date: * November 11, 2006 10:22:05 AM EST
*To: *   [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Return-Path: * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
*X-Original-To: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Delivered-To: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Received: * from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by server1.neighborhoods.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDE2B6C2F0 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:22:18 -0500 (EST) *Received: * from server1.neighborhoods.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31180-01-2 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:22:12 -0500 (EST) *Received: * by server1.neighborhoods.net (Postfix, from userid 114) id 1A9BFB6C2F6; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:22:05 -0500 (EST)

Any thoughts on other ways to whitelist locally originated messages from a single address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) without just opening up the world to spammers by using a simple whitelist_from command?

Thanks again,

Miles


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