why wont my whitelist work

Good morning.

I am running SA & EXIM.

Here is my problem:

Whitelist in local.cf does not seem to be working.
Shouldn't the whitelisted address have 0 hits?
I have restarted the spamd PID, no luck
PID is:  spamd -a -x -u xadmin

<snip>
Received: from mogwai.mtnns.net ([209.212.109.209]) by protea.int.citec.net
with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13)
	id YRR4NRRC; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 09:15:06 +0200
Received: from protea.int.citec.net ([209.212.109.146]).....
	
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: [email protected]
Subject: test
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.2 required=4.5
	tests=EXCHANGE_SERVER,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05
	version=2.43
X-Spam-Level: ****
X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes

local.cf contains :
whitelist_from_rcvd     *@mtnns.net       MTNNS.NET
whitelist_from_rcvd     *@citec.net       CITEC.NET

Regards, 

Tom Kinghorn