spam.whitelist.rules whitelist to:

Michael Masse mrm at medicine.wisc.edu
Wed Jan 10 21:40:08 CET 2007


>>> On 1/10/2007 at 2:27 PM, in message
<8D8A77DC1FA09546936E74FC3EEC627AD40B93 at FREXGENEVA-01.frfr.foxriver.com>,
"Kosta Lekas" <KLekas at foxriver.com> wrote:
> I have some users that do not want to be subject to any sort of spam
> filtering what so ever. They would rather put up with the spam then
risk
> false positives. I am not one to argue with them so I add a
"whitelist
> to" rule for them in spam.whitelist.rules file. The problem is when
spam
> comes in addressed to multiple recipients including the "whitelist
to"
> address, the spam mail gets whitelisted and delivered to all
recipients
> resulting in complaints form the people who want spam filtering
turned
> on. Is there any way around this besides removing the "whitelist to"
> entry?


Instead of MS deleting spam, you could flag spam either via some sort
of subject modification, or header modification.   That way each client
can have a filter to do whatever they want with it.    The normal people
can have the spam deleted or put into a folder or whatever, and the
paranoid people can have the email show up with everything else.   
Those people also get the benefit of see'ing just how infrequently false
positives occur, and after a while will probably just start
automatically deleting those flagged emails anyways.   You could take
this one step further and utilize MailScanner high scoring spam actions
to do other things with high scoring spam which I've never seen a FP
occur on, although I've raised the threshold from the default.

Mike


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