Need clarification on whitelist rules

[William K. Hardeman]

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--On Friday, October 01, 2004 13:56 +0100 Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

> What form would people like it in? Added to the per-user white and black
> list code?
> It would have to be a simple "remove them from the message if it's in
> their
> blacklist or not in their whitelist".
>
> Can people see any problems with this? Something is nagging me that this
> isn't the correct functionality, but I can't see what the right answer is
> for definite.

The only problem I can see with it right now is that there will have to be
a rule this rule to check the To:, CC: and BCC: headers to ensure that it
gets disposed of properly in the case that all possible local recipients
are removed. I'm sure you've probably already thought of that, though. :-)

Will
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