Question about white and blacklisting in Mailscanner

[Gareth]

I think the logical thing to do would be to use a customfunction (like
SQLWhitelist is for example) which returns false if the whitelist or
blacklist address match.

This would require :-

1) A check to make sure the Is Definetly Spam check is made even if spam
checking is disabled for that mail.

2) The mailwatch authors to add an additional customfunction which can
be used to disable spamassassin checks of the address matches a
whitelist or blacklist.

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:44, Jonas Akrouh Larsen wrote:
> Hi all (Jules)
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> For some time i have been wondering if what I want to do is possible
> with MailScanner.
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> I use the mailwatch database for white and blacklisting.
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> For those not using mailwatch this means I set
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> Is Definitely Not Spam = &SQLWhitelist
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> Is Definitely Spam = &SQLBlacklist
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> Which makes mailscanner do a lookup to check if a mail is white or
> blacklisted.
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> Now what has always wondered me is why both white and blacklisted mail
> are STILL processed through spamassin regardless of their status.
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> My logic is: If something is blacklisted I do not want to waste
> resources on scanning it, since it won’t be delivered anyway. 
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> The reverse can be true for some locations I guess, ie. Not wanting to
> scan white listed mails.
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> At the very least I think it would make sense to make it an option, so
> those with plenty of resources to spare can keep stats etc accurate by
> still scanning the mails.
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> So my question is: Can I make mailscanner 4.70.7-1 do this, or is it
> not possible do save cpu/ram/network in this way with the current
> code?
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> I guess maybe Jules is the best to answer, but I’m sure somebody else
> might know as well.
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> Best regards
> 
> Jonas A. Larsen
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