Disable Outgoing Spam Filtering for One IP or User

GeekOnTheHill

• October 27, 2017 08:21

I would like to selectively disable all outgoing spam filtering for my own account or my own IP. I am the server admin. I have disabled outgoing spam filtering for my (static) IP and whitelisted it everywhere I can find in the Exim configuration, but my outgoing mail is still being scanned, and mail identified as spam is being bounced back. The reason I want to disable spam filtering from my IP or user account is so I can forward spam that I receive to SpamCop. I can't do that because the spam filtering is correctly identifying the spam as spam. I have been forwarding spam to SpamCop through one of my off-server mail providers for about 10 years, but they recently stopped allowing it. Thanks.

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 27, 2017 16:24

  Hello, You can modify the global SpamAssassin configuration file to whitelist the domain name. It's located at:
  /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
  Once you make the changes, restart SpamAssassin with the following command:
  /scripts/restartsrv_spamd
  Information on the specific rules available for whitelisting are available at: Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf - SpamAssassin configuration file Thank you.

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  GeekOnTheHill

  • October 28, 2017 01:06

  Hello, You can modify the global SpamAssassin configuration file to whitelist the domain name. It's located at:
  /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
  Once you make the changes, restart SpamAssassin with the following command:
  /scripts/restartsrv_spamd
  Information on the specific rules available for whitelisting are available at: Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf - SpamAssassin configuration file Thank you.

  
  Thank you. I'll give that a try. I was unaware that that the local.cf file affected outgoing scanning, as well.

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  GeekOnTheHill

  • October 28, 2017 22:49

  Okay, that worked. What I did was whitelist the recipient using this line in local.cf:
  all_spam_to *@spam.spamcop.net
  I whitelisted the recipient and used the wildcard, rather than whitelisting myself as a sender, in case any of my clients are also Spamcop reporters. Thank again.

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 30, 2017 14:49

  Hello, I'm glad to see you were able to find a suitable solution. Thank you for sharing the outcome.

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