On Friday 22 February 2008 23:37:29 René Berber wrote: > > Should I post the contents of both local.cf and user_prefs? They don't > > contain anything special as far as I can see, but something definitely > > feels wrong with my configuration. Why else would the AWL test get such > > scores? > > AWL is probably not the culprit, as I said, it follows not leads.
Thank you for the reply and your time. It has been about a week now since I removed the problematic address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from the whitelist database and started over. Initial tests have proved positive, no wrong AWL scores. The trust path is correct by the way, no ALL_TRUSTED tests fire nor do I observe any of the symptoms described on the wiki page. But that was a week ago, and now I am back to the square one it seems. I just posted to the Dovecot mailing list and found that when retrieving the message from the remote mailserver (the one that hosts the problematic address) via getmail the AWL test got a score of over 9.5. Looking through my Received Spam folder I see lots of spams which seem to have come from me, i.e. "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Now as far as I understand AWL looks at both the sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and the IP the mail came from, right? So it would seem that Spamassassin on my server looks at the sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and the IP address of the server the (possible) spam comes from. In my case the only IP address that could be looked at is the IP address of the remote mailserver, i.e. that of my_mail_provider.org (85.214.xx.yy). This is clearly not the desired behaviour. That would explain why the AWL score would become ever higher with every spam (that has my address in the From: field) received on the remote mailserver and then retrieved by me on my local mailserver. The mail address/IP address pair would always be the same, no matter where the original spam originated from. I hope I could make clear what I am thinking. Am I thinking correctly? Is this what is happening? If so, how do I solve this problem? I really can't be having all legitimate mail sent to mailing lists by me end up in the Spam folder just because some spammers put my address in the From: field. I'd really appreciate any further insight on this. Andreas -- Andreas "daff" Ntaflos Vienna, Austria GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4
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