On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2007 18:50, John D. Hardin wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> > > > SpamAssassin's trusted_network configuration caught my
> > > > eye. What exactly does this do, and should I put my box's
> > > > ip address in there?
> > >
> > > Absolutely. You put all your internal servers and possible ISP
> > > servers there too. Trusted networks are networks and hosts that
> > > you trust are not generating spam.
> >
> > Incorrect! "trust" means the Received: headers they generate are
> > trusted to be accurate (i.e. not forged), **not** that those hosts are
> > not originating spam!
>
> No, Jari is correct. He also wrote "And mostly, they will not
> tamper with email headers, that's what the trust is about.", but
> you left that out. And hosts in trusted_networks *are* (mildly)
> trusted not to originate spam. That's what ALL_TRUSTED is about.
That's fair. I focused too quickly on the "not generate spam" part.
Apologies.
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