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SpamAssassin scanning even though sender is on only-verify-recipient list

gramzon
I have some servers behind dyndns (IP changes every 24 hours) and I need them to be able to send mail to me. I added the dyndns domains to the "Only-verify-recipient" (/etc/trustedmailhosts) list under Exim configuration manager, but SA is still scanning these mails and marking them as spam. How can I get SA to ignore these messages, and why isn't it already doing it since the description of the "Only-verify-recipient" list is "Hosts or IP addresses that should be exempt from all spam checks at SMTP time, except recipient verification. " Strangely enough, after restarting exim the e-mails from the dnynds are not being scanned. My guess is that the IPs for domains from /etc/trustedmailhosts are cached somewhere and when an IP for one of these domains changes exim does not pick it up. So maybe the solution would be a script that detects change of IP for domains in /etc/trustedmailhosts and simply restarts exim. I may be wrong on this one though.

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  • cPanelAnthony
    Hello! Could you try following these instructions for the dyndns domains?
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  • gramzon
    Looks like that works, but I was hoping to do it globally.
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  • cPanelAnthony
    Hello! You should be able to edit this file. [CODE=bash]/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
    As far as what to add, this article should help.
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  • gramzon
    It would be easy for a spammer now to impersonate this domain, since only the header of the e-mail is checked (using whitelist_from_rcvd is also not viable since I can not set up a rDNS for my dynamic IP address)
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  • cPanelAnthony
    Unfortunately, it's rather easy for domains to be impersonated with email in general. Were you able to get this set up globally?
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  • gramzon
    Yes
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