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Comment: [Original edit by JustinMason] add note about the trusted/internal difference

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The 'most recent untrusted' host is the only 'grey area', however. All the other hosts listed in the 'X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted' pseudoheader were both untrusted themselves, and their details were not recorded by a trusted host; both the lines themselves and the IP addresses are not trustworthy, since they could have been generated by a spamware application creating fake header data. It's especially important not to trust that data for rules that could give negative points, since spammers can, and will, attempt to fake their way around your whitelisting rules.

Also worth noting: it's common for the "trusted" networks to extend further than the "internal" networks. If you are writing rules to match the host which delivered a mail into the SMTP MX server, you should use "external" instead of "untrusted", since it's common for "good" third-party senders to be put into the "trusted" list. (This is especially important for rules that match features of dynamic host senders, such as rDNS patterns etc.)