Need clarification on whitelist rules

[Rick Cooper]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:10 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Need clarification on whitelist rules
>
>
> At 14:56 01/10/2004, you wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> ><snip>
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > --
> >
> >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.
>
> --

Isn't this what you are proposing above?

> > > It would have to be a simple "remove them from the message if
> > > it's in their
> > > blacklist or not in their whitelist".

so if you handle the white/black listing here if it's spam and whitelisted
don't remove them and if it's ham but blacklisted do remove them, or am I
missing something? I would think where every the per user scoring is checked
if the whitelist/blacklist was checked as well it would simply adjust the
actual tagging as spam or ham the same as the scoring based tagging would,
the difference being if it scores as 6.5 and the user threshold is 7.5 but
it's blacklisted it would be tagged as spam and not ham? I'm sorry if I am
coming across dense just looking for a way to simplify the overall code
changes

Rick


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