On Monday 22 January 2007 11:39, you wrote:
> Sherman Lilly wrote:
> > I have spam getting through that would get filtered if they were not
> > getting -100 because of the USER_IN_WHITELIST rule. I do have a whitelist
> > but no of these spam email have anything close to my whitelist.
>
> Yes they do, otherwise you wouldn't see USER_IN_WHITELIST hitting.
>
> It's probably hitting on whatever the envelope from address is (found in
> the Return-Path header).  Most of the time this happens when people
> whitelist their own domain using whitelist_from.
>
>
> Daryl

Daryl,

You are completely right. I have whitelisted my domain and when I remove that 
rule from my cf the bad emails get blocked. Here is the header of an email 
that is getting through. It should have failed. The rule is 

WHITELIST_FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Here is the header.

Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Delivered-To: unknown
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  Jan 2007 13:02:37 -0000
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From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: work: thou shalt see not hold of before the race is I: will make
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:41:25 -0600
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Thank You,
Sherman

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