From: Alvaro MarÃn <alv...@hostalia.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:30:49 +0200
It seems that there is a problem resolving DNS records of that domain so I
want to whitelist it. If I add:
whitelist_from_spf *...@orange.es
It's ignored by SA, as the log says.
Reviewing code of SPF.pm from SpamAssassin, I see:
# if the message doesn't pass SPF validation, it can't pass an SPF
...
So, which is the purpose of this whitelist feature? If the SPF check fails,
it can't do whitelist?
Yes. The whitelist check is done after the SPF check. Anybody can
have a SPF record. SPF just means that the message is genuine = not
forged. You can get genuine spam. If you aren't getting SPF_PASS on
the message then whitelist_from_spf won't do anything.
If you are getting SPF_PASS on email from other domains then the
domain you are trying to whitelist probably does not have spf setup.
-jeff
