> >My thought is that email is MUCH more critical for this > situation where > >if a home user looses a piece of mail because of a false > positive it's > >not as bad... Ok we could debate that later but hear me out... > > Just one quick note here. Whitelisting is meant as a last > resort, for > E-mail that you absolutely, positively must have, and where > the sender > won't fix their problems. > > It has the same drawback that filtering does -- it can catch > a lot of stuff > it shouldn't. Just as you don't want a filter to catch all > mail from Dr. > Dick Hitchcock, people have seen a sudden increase in spam when > whitelisting "mail.com" (which ends up whitelisting > @hotmail.com, a popular > return address for spammers).
Understood. I'm just looking to put in: @customer1.com @customer2.com I don't use .customer1.com for the reasons you've stated. I try to recommend that admins fix their problem but most just don't care because "Well, it works with everyone else." I can't really get into a debate with a customer. :) But I see your point that it could create problems for people who don't know how it works. > >Using an ODBC datasource might speed up Junkmail's > processing because > >it could issue SQL select queries to a persistently open database. > > Actually, Declude JunkMail's current whitelisting would > likely be faster. > > >Additionally, I could write an ASP front end to modify the > white/black > >list easier. > > If the 200 item limit were removed (something we will have to do > eventually), would that make a difference? Going to ODBC is going to > involve a lot of extra work, that might be only minimally useful. > -Scott That would work, or just moving the WHITELIST to an external file like KFILE (Blacklist). With Blacklist, I've just written an ASP to read each tab delimited field and display. ODBC isn't necessary... Just a thought. Are you loading global.cfg into memory? Is that the reason for the 200 item limit? Also, you could leave the 200 item limit as a default and put an override in. WHITELISTLIMIT=ON/OFF I'm not sure if it would matter. Thanks! --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by F-Proto Virus Scanner] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
