Autowhite list question.

Jeff Walker fadotek at onebox.com
Thu Jul 8 21:25:58 IST 2004


I was looking into implementing something like this where receipients on
outgoing mails are auto whitelisted. ANyone has implemented this that
cares to share :)

-Jeff.
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> Hi.
>
> Forgive my noobishness.  I'm sure this question has been answered
> a thousand times, I just couldn't find it in the archives.
>
> I have seen whitelists before that are updated by the users themselves.
> Basically the mail server watches the outbound mail queues.  Any email
> sent by a local user to an external one is immediately whitelisted.
>
> The server is then setup to ONLY allow people on the whitelist to send
> to an internal user (i.e: the local user has to make "first contact"
> before the remote user is allowed to send inbound mail).
>
> It's kind of a draconian system, however I have some users who have
> already authorized it.  They don't get outside sales contacts so it
> won't matter much to them.
>
> How do I implement this with Mailscanner / spamassassin?
>
> Thanks.
> Scott.
>
>
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