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Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands



On 3.3.2010 3:38, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Up-to-date Sid system.)
> 
> SA, which is "attached" to Postfix, isn't doing what I think it should
> do.  According to instructions I found on the Intarweb, per-user
> whitelist addresses go in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs with the format:
> whitelist_from  foo@bar.com
> 

Side note: "whitelist_from" is the most dangerous variant of those
whitelist commands in SA. "whitelist_auth" of "whitelist_from_rcvd"
should be used, if at all possible.

whitelist_from accepts also spam, if the sender address is forged, which
most often is in spam or virii.

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