Whitelist > Blacklist

[Julian Field]

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Good idea. I have changed the "spamblacklist" check to only have an
effect if it is not whitelisted.
Hopefully this will work well.

Derek Buttineau | Compu-SOLVE wrote:

> Good Day,
>
> Just upgraded to 4.40 and I see that this issue is still there.  So I
> thought I'd clarify a bit of what I'm seeing, there's really only one
> scenario where this becomes an issue:
>
> - User has an individual address on their whitelist: username at domain.com
> - User has the domain on their blacklist: *@domain.com
> - System is configured to want SA headers
>
> What's happening currently is the message gets flagged as on the
> whitelist so the $iswhitelisted value gets set positive, but then it
> gets flagged as spam as well when it does the blacklist check.  While
> not a huge issue, it becomes somewhat confusing to the end user.
>
> I've worked around it locally by just extending the if (!$iswhitelisted)
> check to include the blacklist check in Message.pm
>
> Regards,
>
> Derek Buttineau
> Internet Systems Developer
> Compu-SOLVE Internet Services
> Compu-SOLVE Technologies Inc.
>
> 705.725.1212 x255
>
>
>
> Derek Buttineau | Compu-SOLVE wrote:
>
>> Hey, just thought I'd mention there seems to be a small bug with the
>> whitelist vs the blacklist in MailScanner 4.39.6.  The blacklist is
>> being checked even if the sender is whitelisted (ie if a user is set to
>> have one specific address whitelisted and the remainder of the domain
>> blacklisted, both checks are being hit).  I've found that I can correct
>> this, simply by wrapping the blacklist check in a (!$iswhitelisted) in
>> Message.pm.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Derek Buttineau
>> Internet Systems Developer
>> Compu-SOLVE Internet Services
>> Compu-SOLVE Technologies Inc.
>>
>> 705.725.1212 x255
>>
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