How to whitelist recipients before mail goes to spamassassin? - linux

Question

I've been looking everywhere for a solution but didn't find.
What I need is to whitelist some recipient addresses so they won't ever go to the spamassassin filtering.
In my master.cf in postfix I have this:
spamassassin unix - n n - - pipe
user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e
/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

From https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.4.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html
whitelist_to user#example.com
If the given address appears as a recipient in the message headers (Resent-To, To, Cc, obvious envelope recipient, etc.) the mail will be whitelisted. Useful if you're deploying SpamAssassin system-wide, and don't want some users to have their mail filtered. Same format as whitelist_from.
There are three levels of To-whitelisting, whitelist_to, more_spam_to and all_spam_to. Users in the first level may still get some spammish mails blocked, but users in all_spam_to should never get mail blocked.
The headers checked for whitelist addresses are as follows: if Resent-To or Resent-Cc are set, use those; otherwise check all addresses taken from the following set of headers:
To
Cc
Apparently-To
Delivered-To
Envelope-Recipients
Apparently-Resent-To
X-Envelope-To
Envelope-To
X-Delivered-To
X-Original-To
X-Rcpt-To
X-Real-To

Answer 2

Open this file:
/etc/spamassassin/local.cf and add this line:
whitelist_from abc#def.com
That will whitelist the address. To blacklist an address just use
blacklist_from abc#def.com
Also, I'm running Ubuntu, and they also include a file in the same location,
65_debian.cf. You can add that there as well.
Make sure this plugin is uncommented:
ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit
whitelist_from abc#def.com
...
endif
All your whitelist/blacklist rules along with custom scores and rules should fall within these lines.