Whitelist / blacklist interactions question

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Quentin Campbell wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list 
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Martin Sapsed
>>Sent: 08 December 2004 11:57
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Whitelist / blacklist interactions question
>>
>>Quentin Campbell wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I have
>>>
>>>  From:  *@oxfam.org.uk   yes
>>>
>>>in my spam.whitelist.rules file. I have
>>>
>>>  From: fred at oxfam.org.uk  yes
>>>
>>>in my spam.blacklist.rules file.
>>>
>>>I expect the latter entry to overrule the former in the case of mail
>>>from "fred". What I am getting is inconsistent behaviour.
>>>      
>>>
>>Why not just add
>>   From: fred at oxfam.org.uk  no
>>to your whitelist rules or am I missing something?
>>    
>>
>
>Martin
>
>Yes, you can do that. However it does not necessarily mean that it will
>always be marked as spam.
>
>I want _all_ message from the "fred" address to be marked as high
>scoring spam. That is what adding it to the blacklist should do.
>
>Quentin
>  
>

Quentin,

I think the whitelist has always precedence over the blacklist.  So your 
only option is really to put both in one file or the other but not in both.

Denis
PS: we use yes/no values in both white+black lists and it works great!

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