Re: Problem with whitelist_from_rcvd and forged reverse lookup

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jeff Mincy wrote:

>   From: Sebastian Wiesinger <spamassassin.users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:09 +0200
>
>   * John Hardin <jhardin@xxxxxxxxxx> [2009-07-30 17:39]:
>   >> Sendmail -> Procmail -> SA (spamc)
>   >
>   > Cool, that should be simple.
>   >
>   > Can you send:
>   >
>   > (1) the Received: headers from an email generated on that box, and
>   >
>   > (2) the procmail stanza where you call SA?
>
>   I could create a procmail rule that excludes local mail from SA, but I
>   would much rather like to whitelist this in spamassassin. Nevertheless
>   thanks for your offer to help with procmail.
>
> Processing locally generated email that contain spam URLs through
> SpamAssassin is not a particularly good idea.  If you have Bayes
> enabled then you are training your Bayes that spam URLs and whatever
> else is in the log files are hammy tokens.

...if you have Bayse _autolearn_ enabled...

> You really do want to skip SpamAssassin processing on messages like
> this in your procmail.


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