jhardin at impsec
Mar 29, 2012, 3:34 PM
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, joea [at] j4computers wrote:
>>> Hmm, I use fetchmail to grab mail from various accounts.
>> add the ip address (last received) from each account to trusted_networks
>> in local.cf.
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>>> Soooo . . . the actual source or "IP of interest" will not be the
>> connection IP.
>
> Thanks, but the "last received" will always be the same ones, as I fetch mail
> from various accounts and "drop" them into the spamassassin box.
>
> The IP of the actual source of the message is far down the list of IP's. To block by
> IP, in this case, I would have to implement that at the ISP's server. I was dis satisfied
> with their SPAM solutions so went with SA. The ISP continues to accept mail for my
> accounts and I fetch them, and feed them to SA, then it gets delivered to my mail
> system.
If you trust those ISPs to not forge headers, then add them to the trusted
list too, and that will push the checking boundary back to where they
received the message from.
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John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/
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