A question re "Ignore Spam Whitelist If ..."

[Julian Field]

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Quentin Campbell wrote:
> I _never_ want mail originating on campus to be tagged as spam.
>
> Thus we have always whitelisted mail originating at this site by listing
> our campus network IP ranges in ~/rules/spam.whitelist.rules.
>
> We see many messages originating on campus that have more than 20
> (usually local) recipients.
>
> When you added the "Ignore Spam Whitelist If Recipients Exceed = 20"
> option some time ago, I bumped the number up to 1000 to avoid this
> overiding "spam.whitelist.rules". We thus lose the protection the
> "Ignore Spam Whitelist If ..." option provided.
>
> What I really want is the ability to absolutely whitelist a subset of
> address or IP ranges while allowing other options to conditionally
> ignore the whitelisting of addresses outside that subset.

Surely you can do this with a ruleset on the "Ignore Spam Whitelist If
..." option, or else move your spam whitelist ruleset to the "Spam
Checks" option.

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