on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:16:28AM -0500, W. Paul Mills (Paul-NOT@Mills-USA.com) wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:23:43 +0000, Mark Maas wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I installed the following:
> >
> > Exim 3.35, Amavis, spamassassin, razor and clam-av.
> >
> > Amavis scans incoming and outgoing emails, and therefore also get passed
> > on to Spamassassin for checking as wel.
> >
> > Receently though spamassassin thinks i'm a spammer as well:
> > Unsolicited bulk email from:
> > mark@menem.mine.nu
> > Subject: SPAM [verify@relay05.reunion.com: registration@reunion.com:
> > vate Your Reunion.com Account Today!!]
> >
> > According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at:
> > mark
> >
> > The message WILL BE delivered to:
> > <submit.yAOJR6Gmoi2NlCug@spam.spamcop.net>
> >
> > The message has been quarantined as:
> > /var/lib/amavis/virusmails/spam-9a81e2098af61b2e4a1ce70af22a5fc8-20031003-103400-27759-07.gz
> >
> > Why? Well i've got a exim forward filter file, and when an email comes in
> > with ****SPAM**** in the subject it gets send to spamcop for reporting.
> > That report email is seen by spamassassin as spam as well.
> >
> > How do I tell spamassassin that email originating from local accounts
> > (root, mark, etc) are by default never spam?
> "whitelist_from menem.mine.nu" in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf or
> ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs
This will, however, whitelist incoming mail as well. A common tactic
for spammer is to forge/spoof an address in your own domain.
Wouldn't the right thing to do be having separate (not sure what the
exim4 terminology is) routers/forwarders which handle incoming mail and
outgoing deliveries separately, or possibly with different SA rulesets?
Whitelisting yourself might be another useful trick.
Peace.
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