Feature request - automated whitelists |
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Robert Gusnowski ![]() Guest Group ![]() |
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I am unsure how much extra work this would involve, but would it be possible to setup some sort of automated whitelist system? What I have in mind is this: 1. Unknown/untrusted user sends message to user@maildomain.com 2. SPAMFilter ISP holds the message in quarantine and sends the unknown/untrusted user an e-mail message confirming their email address - the untrusted user either replies to the message or "clicks" a web link that adds them in to the trusted whitelist 3. SPAMFilter ISP then forwards the quarantined message to recipient This would occur only for the first time a user sends to the domain - once the sender's e-mail address is added to the whitelist mail would simply pass through the system.
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LogSat ![]() Admin Group ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4105 |
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Robert,A very similar option has been available in SpamFilter ISP since build 2.1.1.367:// New to VersionNumber = '2.1.1.367';
{TODO -cNew : Added option so that any quarantined (false positives) emails that the end user force-delivers will cause the sender to be automatically whitelisted}
From the readme.html help http://file:Starting from SpamFilter ISP v 2.1, when an end user forces the delivery of a quarantined email to his mailbox, the sender of that email will be whitelisted so that the number of false-positives (good emails wrongly classified as spam) is reduced. The list of user-created entries is stored in the file AutoWhiteListForceDelivery.txt. The whitelisting is on a per-user basis, meaning that a sender is whitelisted only when he sends emails to that specific recipient. This will prevent a user mistakenly whitelisting a spammer, who could then send spam to all of your users.Roberto F.
LogSat Software
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kspare ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 January 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 334 |
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Roberto, There is one bug in that. If you use spamfilter to send emails, IE, to automate notification or for registering users, it adds the from address and the to address of the registration email to the autowhitelist....could be a hole for spammers.
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Robert Gusnowski ![]() Guest Group ![]() |
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Thanks - that will work. I am just getting the web interface setup.
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Desperado ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1143 |
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Kevin,
Good call! I was just trying to figure out where some of my autowhitelist entries were coming from and this is EXACTLY what I am seeing. I run a script once a day to kill what I feel are "bad" entries. Dan S. |
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