[IMail Forum] Rule to bypass filters

[Jeffery Rehm]

I've read in this list a way to use rules to bypass filtering in lieu of the whitelist.  It involved setting up a rule that says if the from address contains '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'  then copy to something like 'trash'.  Then you would setup a rule specific to the trash user that basically says to delete anything coming to it.  The post said this would effectively bypass filtering.   I tried this and unless I totally missed the boat on something it didn't work quite the way it should.  The messages seem to be delivered to the users as stated, but the rule I have setup specific to the trash user won't delete the mail copied to trash.   This is not a big deal, but why wouldn't this work:   I have a rule that says that if the header contains X-IMAIL-SPAM then move it to [EMAIL PROTECTED].  I did this so that everything detected as spam goes to me.  I did this because I host mail for most of my family on my own server and since they are not too hip on how any of this works, I thought it better to just deal with their spam myself.  They don't get much, but some of their legit mail gets detected as spam.  So, why could I not just create a rule for the domain that is processed prior to my X-IMAIL-SPAM rule that simply moves the mail I want to let through to main if the rule is triggered?  Wouldn't this dump the allowed mail into the respective user's box?