Scott Smith wrote:
>If I'm not mistaken, it looks like ASSP will basically block anything
that
>comes from an address that is not on the whitelist.  

Nope.  That's not it.  ASSP runs a Bayesian test on everything that
comes in.  What it also does is skip filtering for anything on the
whitelist, and the whitelist self-generates (there are also other ways
to skip processing in the config file).  Put simply, anyone a local
*auth'd* user emails or cc's is whitelisted.  Thus the whitelist gets
more extensive and, between the growing whitelist and the seed of
spam.not spam files, the system gets smarter over time.  Really smart so
far as I can see.

Users can of course manually whitelist stuff by simply sending an email
to the whitelistee.  There is also a special address that can be used --
only by an auth'd user, again -- to add a whitelist entry.  This seems
redundant at first but you can use it along with a scripting language to
build your own whitelist form for users who are 'local' but who do not
use the Imail smtp server to send mail.

So far as I can tell the whitelist feature works splendidly.  And, set
up properly, the system uses minimal resources, which are a big issue
for me.  

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