Ok, just for my understanding, does whitelist not mean that dspam trusts the from address? If not, what does whitelist mean?
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:04:48 -0400, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Samuel Clough wrote: >> This keeps coming up from time to time. Is there a valid reason that > you >> cannot manually set a whitelist (in a table for example) ? > > Yes. The From: header is perhaps the most easily forged element of an > e-mail. > It isn't trustworthy. Period. dspam deals with statistical methods of > judging > how likely a message is spam. The whitelist feature is only available > from > within the larger framework because it has to be able to be overturned if > and > when that From: address _is_ forged. > > If you really want to whitelist some address, use your MTA's configuration > to > avoid sending the e-mail through dspam for those addresses. > > John > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > 4501 Forbes Blvd > Suite H > Lanham, MD 20706 > 301-459-3366 x.5010 > fax 301-429-5747 > > !DSPAM:46072a5339401478330409!
