Need clarification on whitelist rules

[Julian Field]

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At 14:56 01/10/2004, you wrote:
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> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 7:57 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Need clarification on whitelist rules
> >
> >
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> >
> > What you need is a Custom Function that edits the recipients list in each
> > message, according to whether they want to be filtered or not. I've done
> > something like this already, just haven't yet published it.
> >
> > 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.
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>I guess my first question is how it's tagged as spam when there is a rule
>file for the spam scoring settings? If user A tagges as spam with a score of
>5.0 and user B tagges it with a score of 7.5 how does the message get
>tagged, since a score of 6.5 would flag as spam for user A and ham for user
>B?

We use it only for automatic spam deletion. In your example, user A would
be removed from the list of recipients, and it would be normally delivered
to user B. To use it for anything other than spam deletion is pretty much
impossible.

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