RE: [vps-mail] Amature Procmail

["Brian Haines" <providertalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Sikaspam!

I do server wide filtering on this server and I tried to use whitelist_from
for this AOL address in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file with no
effect. Like so:

whitelist_from address@xxxxxxx

It didn't work. The email still ended up in the SPAM bucket.

Then I noticed more AOL mail in the SPAM bucket that were false positives,
so I figure I want to just not filter AOL email. Nancy's point that
fake-aol.com will get through my way is now obvious and I intend to ask her
off-list about the SA filter she thinks would work for this.

I once posted a question about my SA rules not getting applied and was
warned that spamd had to be restarted for them to be applied. I don't see
spamd running as a service on my VPS1 and so I don't know if my SA is using
it or not. I also don't know where and how to restart spamd if I could.

Thanks again for everyone's input on this.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Sikaspam
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:37 AM
To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Amature Procmail


> I don't have a "~/etc/access" on my VPS1. What feature, or program 
> does this refer to and is it a way to allow email from an address (or 
> domain) bypassing SA?

Hi Brian,

"Bypassing SA" can be done by reading the SA docs and finding the 
local.cf or user_prefs file and adding addresses to a whitelist_from area.

You may not have a etc/access file simply because you haven't created 
it. It is part of the same logic as etc/aliases and etc/virtmaps on VPS1

As Godwin states, the access file will act while mail is "knocking at 
the door" of your mail server. If you want to forbid entry of mail from 
"joe@xxxxxxxxxx"

From:joe@xxxxxxxxxx	REJECT

An attempt using this From: address will receive a notification of 
undlieverable (you can make it more insulting by customizing the 
message) and the mail (the arriving DATA or message part) will never be 
transferred to your system. procmail would never see it.

The converse to the above would be

From:girlfriend@xxxxxxx		OK

which makes sure that mail gets through even if she's a spammer in block 
lists.

Also, for mission critical accounts where you want to shut off filtering 
entirely,

Spam:sales@xxxxxxxxxx	FRIEND

mail to the the above address will not even be tested and will be 
shunted through.

Now that I've way over-simplified this (the above for example requires 
certain sendmail configuration called delay_checks) I think you should 
get and read either the Sendmail "Bat" book from O'Reilly or at least 
the sendmail docs at http://sendmail.org

For full control of sendmail you need to vinstall sendmail. This puts 
all the config files so you can "tweak."

hth

I'm "sika" spam
======================================================================
This is <vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>       <http://www.perlcode.org/lists/>
Before posting a question, please search the archives (see above URL).


======================================================================
This is <vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>       <http://www.perlcode.org/lists/>
Before posting a question, please search the archives (see above URL).