Whitelist and mailing lists

mschmitt · June 16, 2012

Which mail headers does the whitelist check against?

SpamAssassin is giving the messages in a current conversation thread on a SourceForge mailing list a high score because they mention a filename "configure.ac", which also happens to be a domain on the URIBL blacklist.

I added "lists.sourceforge.net" to the whitelist, but the messages still are not whitelisted.

The messages contain lists.sourceforge.net in the following headers:

To: Discussions related to the development of Basilisk II
 &lt;basilisk-devel[at]lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Reply-to: Discussions related to the development of Basilisk II
 &lt;basilisk-devel[at]lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Errors-to: basilisk-devel-bounces[at]lists.sourceforge.net

What does it take to whitelist a message from a mailing list?

Update: I'm still interesting in knowing which headers it checks, but the immediate problem is solved: I had entered the whitelist as ists.sourceforge.net, not lists. Not sure why it didn't work anyway, since it is supposed to scan right to left.

SpamCopAdmin · June 16, 2012

The whitelist checks the "From" and "Return-Path" fields.

putting lists.sourceforge.net on the whitelist should do it.

No quote marks or [at] sign or anything else. Just lists.sourceforge.net

Or just sourceforge.net would do it, too.

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