Best practices for white and black lists?

[Bill Anderson]

What is the auto whitelist feature of spamassassin and how does it work?  I
notice that it is a feature of mailscanner to support it?  Thanks again.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:58 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Best practices for white and black lists?
>
>
> Sorry to spout on about the new version of MailScanner again, rather than
> the version you've got, but this should be simple. You will be able to
> specify a set of rules for calculating the value "Is It Definitely Spam"
> (addresses contained in the ruleset build up your blacklist), and
> a set for
> calculating the value "Is It Definitely Not Spam" (addresses contained in
> the ruleset build up your whitelist).
>
> Currently there is a "spam.whitelist.conf" in which you can place all your
> whitelist addresses. There is currently no blacklist, but you can
> easily do
> that in sendmail anyway.
>
> At 16:15 17/09/2002, you wrote:
> >I am trying to figure our the best method for creating white and black
> >lists.  It seems like there are several places to put these entries
> >mailscanner/spamassasin/or sendmail.
> >
> >The first scenario is mail that did not get tagged as spam but
> should have.
> >Should I put in the ip in the access sendmail file or is ther a
> black list
> >for mailscanner?  Is there a simpler way?
> >
> >The second scenario is something get's reported as spam but
> should not.  Can
> >I use the auto whitelist feature?  If so, how does it work, I
> couldnt find
> >any information on configuratio or use?  What is the best way?
> >
> >There probably is a million ways to cut it, but I am looking for best
> >practices that seem to work for people.  My goal is to limit the
> amount of
> >management and using automated features would be great.  Thanks.
>
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