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SpamFilter write his own IP-Address in SF

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Category: Spam Filter ISP
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Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
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Printed Date: 22 February 2025 at 5:35pm


Topic: SpamFilter write his own IP-Address in SF
Posted By: kp4711
Subject: SpamFilter write his own IP-Address in SF
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 9:23am

If you have running a WEB-Service on the same machine and generate some mails to a Domain wich is defined in Logsat SPamfiler as local domain and delivered it to localhost:25 (i.e. by PHPMAILER using with a contact-formular or somthing else) SPAMFILTER will detect it as SPAM (if some keywords are found) and write his own IP-Adresse in the SFDB!!!!

I think that it is not a good idea that Spamfilter will report one or more of its own IP-adresses to sfdb!

 

 


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Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 15 January 2007 at 4:35pm
Well... we don't make any exceptions in the SFDB database! Usually SpamFilter will "trust itself", so that emails originating from the SpamFilter itself are not blocked. This occurs if the email originates from 127.0.0.1 or "localhost". If this is not the case, and the email appears to originate on a different IP, that email can be blocked if the filter settings are not configured to allow it to be relayed.
In regards to the SFDB, this is also usually not an issue, as in this case, even if your own SpamFilter will report its own IP to the SFDB, the IP will not be blacklisted, as it takes several reports from multiple locations in order to cause the IP to be actually blacklisted. Yours will only be an entry, but not a blacklisting. For example, if you look at the left side on this website, the counter of IPs in the SFDB lists the acual number of IPs that are being blacklisted. In reality, there's usually about 3-6 times as many IPs in the database, but they are not blacklisted.


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