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Tagging outbound messages
I seem to recall, but cannot find, a recent message where someone had their outbound messages being tagged as spam.

I sent an email to a friend today and it arrived with SA tagging because SA tagged my home IP address, but the message was sent through my mail server, and so my home IP address shouldn’t be getting flagged for being in SORB/PBL.

As far as I know, this has not generally been a problem and I sent many mails a day, so I don't know why this one seems different.

This is what it looked like in my logs.

Oct 20 13:08:35 mail spamd[21962]: spamd: processing message <3450F6A4-85D8-432F-BB11-72ACCC356752@kreme.com> for Munged@munged.com:58
Oct 20 13:08:35 mail.covisp.net postfix/smtps/smtpd[49972] 4CG37R2S7Gz36hw3: permit: RCPT from c-my.ho.me.ip.hsd1.co.comcast.net[my.ho.me.ip]: action=permit_sasl_authenticated for Client host=c-my.ho.me.ip.hsd1.co.comcast.net[my.ho.me.ip] ; from=<kreme@kreme.com> to=<Munged@munged.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[10.0.0.11]>
Oct 20 13:08:35 mail.covisp.net postfix/smtps/smtpd[49972] 4CG37R2S7Gz36hw3: permit: RCPT from c-my.ho.me.ip.hsd1.co.comcast.net[my.ho.me.ip]: action=permit_sasl_authenticated for Client host=c-my.ho.me.ip.hsd1.co.comcast.net[my.ho.me.ip] ; from=<kreme@kreme.com> to=<Munged@munged.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[10.0.0.11]>
Oct 20 13:08:35 mail.covisp.net postfix/smtps/smtpd[49972] 4CG37R2S7Gz36hw3: permit: RCPT from c-my.ho.me.ip.hsd1.co.comcast.net[my.ho.me.ip]: action=permit_sasl_authenticated for Client host=c-my.ho.me.ip.hsd1.co.comcast.net[my.ho.me.ip] ; from=<kreme@kreme.com> to=<Munged@munged.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[10.0.0.11]>
Oct 20 13:08:37 mail spamd[21962]: spamd: identified spam (5.2/5.0) for Munged@munged.com:58 in 1.3 seconds, 187457 bytes.
Oct 20 13:08:38 mail.covisp.net postfix/smtp[49976] 4CG37R2S7Gz36hw3: to=<Munged@munged.com>, relay=mx-caprica.easydns.com[64.68.200.41]:25, delay=2.9, delays=1.7/0.01/0.61/0.58, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as E0F0853019)

The issue is not that SA is wrong about my home IP being in SORBS. But that the email was tagged as if it was an external delivery to a local address, so I need to change settings in my config (postfix $current).

smtpd_milters = unix:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock,
milter_connect_macros = j {daemon_name} v {if_name} _

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Re: Tagging outbound messages [ In reply to ]
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:47:02 -0600
@lbutlr wrote:

> I seem to recall, but cannot find, a recent message where someone had
> their outbound messages being tagged as spam.
>
> I sent an email to a friend today and it arrived with SA tagging
> because SA tagged my home IP address, but the message was sent
> through my mail server, and so my home IP address shouldn’t be
> getting flagged for being in SORB/PBL.
>


The normal way that SA deals with this is to look for authentication
e.g. the "A" in "with ESMTPSA".

Was there something like that in the submission header?