Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>   
>> Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>>     
>>> I vote for the criteria to be determined by the person who installs the
>>> filter.  There could be an extra module that gets included, in which a
>>> certain function or method would get called to determine whether a given
>>> sender/recipient pair gets whitelisted.  Each installer could implement
>>> this module in a site-specific manner.
>>>
>>> How does this idea sound?
>>>       
>> Complicated.  Each user would need to be a python programmer, which is bad.
>>     
>
> Well, a default implementation could be supplied which does a reasonably
> intelligent thing.  The Python programmers could override it if they
> wish.
>
>
>   
Or, it could be like the privateaddr filter, where you can specifically 
state which addresses are private. Instead, an admin can list some 
_dont_whitelist_emails_from, or something of the sort. Would that be 
workable? In this case, anything sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] would 
not add the recipients to a whitelist.

Of course, if I sent an email from the employment box, I should accept 
responses. Otherwise, we're basically building a spambot, on some level. 
So, employment sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should 
mean that employment will accept mails from John. But, mails to sallie 
will go through the standard filters, even it is from John.

So, I guess my point is, it could be reasonably done (I think) by 
listing exceptions, but I don't see the real value in doing so.

Either way, I'll be very happy to see this done, as it means I may 
actually be able to implement some of these methods of SPAM avoidance...

One question, though: If I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and she 
gets hit by a worm, does that mean that her emails to me will not be 
checked for a virus?  And if I ever send a message to myself to test 
something, then all SPAM that sends itself as if I had sent it to myself 
would get through???

I think I'd like a filter that could check to see if an email is 
claiming to be sent by a local (or hosted) domain but coming from some 
foreign server. I know I could do it in the BOFH "freemail" area by 
listing all of my own domains, but is there a way to not reject, but 
still push through the other filters?





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