----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Jack Gostl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "spam" <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: whitelist


Matt Kettler wrote:
Matt Kettler wrote:
Jack Gostl wrote:

I have an odd problem. I have a user receiving spam from something like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Since he does business with verybigcompany.com, he had them in his white list, and as expected, the spam slipped through.

Based on the advice I got in this newsgroup, I changed him from a
straight:

     whitelist_from    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

to

   whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] verybigcompany.com

I think I did that right. So now the odd thing is that spam from
verybigcompany.com is coming through on my PERSONAL account even
though its
not in my whitelist. The headers show that this is a "user in whitelist" situation. It may be happening to others, I haven't checked, but its weird
enough that its happening to me.

Now if I haven't confused everyone, I'm open to ideas.

Have you checked *all* the "from like" headers to see if any of them
match your whitelist. (ie: return-path, envelope-sender, etc, etc, etc)

Have you tried running the same message through spamassassin -D to see
which exact address SA matched against?




One other thing to check.. if you use spamd you're probably subject to
this bug:

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4179

No, it's not that bug. That bug is about user rules getting compiled into methods at runtime and then not disposed off when the username gets changed.

The whitelist (and blacklist) config structures are copied in and out of existance by copy_config fine AFAIK.

Jack -- are you using spamd? Are usernames being passed along somehow (via spamc -u, some other client?)? How are user preferences stored?

Sorry for the delay in responding, I thought it was a closed issue.

Yes, I'm using spamd.

Here is the line from my .procmailrc file:
       |/usr/local/bin/spamc

As you can see, no user specified. Each user has their own user_prefs in $HOME/.spamassassin.



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