I have a bunch of general questions about the relatively new personal
whitelisting / blacklisting feature.  I hppe that this is the start to a
small thread where we can have a discussion on this and then come up with a
quick explanation summary post which I'll do at the end to benefit the rest
of the admins out there who might need clarification.  We could also stick
this in the admin interface.


The main question is if [email protected] sends in a whitelist request
via the admin interface what exactly happens?  Is the address whitelisted
for everyone still but also put on ouruser1's personal whitelist so that if
it's removed it remains with ouruser1?

Also:

1) Does personal whitelisting only happen via the email interface or if
[email protected] simply emails [email protected] will that address also
go to user1's personal whitelist?

2) Along those lines, would [email protected] now be whitelisted for
everyone like it used to be before personal whitelisting?  I hope so and
that user2 could blacklist it if necessary.

3) Let's say that [email protected] is whitelisted (global).  Before
personal whitelisting, if [email protected] sent an email to
[email protected] with a cc to [email protected],
[email protected] would be whitelisted.  What happens with
personal whitelisting - would [email protected] ONLY be
whitelisted for [email protected]?

4) Say [email protected] is whitelisted globally but [email protected] has
that address blacklisted.  If [email protected] sends a single email to
[email protected] and [email protected], will it get through to neither,
both, or only user1?  If blocked to user2 but not user1 will
[email protected] still get a notification that it was blocked?

5) I see that in the GUI we can now do:
[email protected],*
to remove that address from everyone's whitelist.  Is the ,* required?

I know Thomas wrote:

If a admin wants to remove all records (also the global one) for a address
via email-interface, he should use the following syntax:

u...@domain,*

If the address is written without the ',*' his own entry
'u...@domain,ad...@localdomain' will be maked as deleted.

This belongs also to the GUI.

 I strongly recommend and request that we change the GUI functionality.  I
regularly remove 10-20 addresses from the whitelist at a time, intending to
remove them for everyone.  It would be nice to continue being able to just
stick the addresses in there from an email header, whithout having to clean
them up and put ,* after each.  If as an admin I want to edit only my
personal list, I can use the email interface just like everyone else.

If this won't work, maybe we could add a radio button to "Remove from master
whitelist and personal whiteliststs" and let that use the old syntax and
affect everyone?



6) On the personal blacklist, if some user blacklists *[email protected] (out of
stupidity), clearly they won't get email from anyone from yahoo.  However,
will this idiot mistake cause these rejected emails in the same way that the
master blackListedDomains does?  Is so, that would allow a stupid user to
corrupt the corpus pretty quickly.  This is why I changed wildcardUser to
something that no user would be able to guess.  I assume that wildcardUser
is used with the personal white and blacklists too?


I hope this stuff hasn't been clearly answered elsewhere - I've searched but
haven't found direct answers.
Thanks
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