spam rules confused

[David Bandel]

On 6/27/07, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> I am trying to add some addresses into the whitelist of mailscanner and
> spamassassin.
>
> For MailScanner, it uses /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules
> with the format like "FromOrTo: *@linux-sxs.org yes"
>
> But when I look into the file /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf
> ( whick links to /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf ) there is
> this following comment :
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> # White list addresses should be added in
>
>         /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> >From what I understand, the same whitelist file of Mailscanner is read
> by spamassassin but the format of SA  rules is different from
> MailScanner ones.
>
> So how can spamassassin understand the file spam.whitelist.rules ?

It can't.  But why should it have to?  You told mailscanner that
address was OK, so mailscanner won't run spamassassin.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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