Feature Requests item #905648, was opened at 2004-02-27 06:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by garyuthegreat You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=498106&aid=905648&group_id=61702
Category: Outlook Group: None Status: Closed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Dave Rinell (kitchenboy) Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond) Summary: Option to whitelist Outlook Contacts / Address Book Initial Comment: It would be great if there was an option to "Whitelist" mail from e-mail addresses attached to Outlook Contacts and/or Address Book. Before using SpamBayes, I was using PopFile with an Outlook plugin and this feature was very helpful - except for a few annoyances (the whitelist was not dynamic - you had to load the list from contacts periodically because it was a static list). This could even be extended to allow right-click -- > "Add Sender to WhiteList" functionality. The messages from whitelist members could still be scanned, ... if they looked like spam, they could go into Possible - just not directly into SPAM. SpamBayes is GREAT - this would make it that much better. Great Work ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Garyu (garyuthegreat) Date: 2004-12-21 23:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1003063 Yeah, I just read the text in the FAQ & comments (couldn't find it at first, that's why I looked in the feature requests). It's true that not everybody would be happy with a whitelist, but it's good for some people, like me! :-). I guess it's more a feature that isn't that necessary so it will not be implemented until someone finds the time and motivation to write it. Perhaps once I learn some more Python I'll dive into it myself. The way I see it is a whitelist separate from the Contacts. I don't want to mess up my contacts by adding every person that's allowed to send me e-mail to my contacts. Perhaps a one-time-importing function (I understand this is quite hard, but it would be nice anyway ;-)). I'd need just some basic whitelisting rules. This means a GUI page with checkboxes, buttons for Add/Modify/Delete and a simple rules checker, setting Spam-score at 0% (or some other value). Just a thought. Not a necessary feature right now, but a reminder for the future (perhaps even for myself!). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin) Date: 2004-12-21 22:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=552329 Unfortunately implementation is tricky. FAQ 6.6 has a comments (and a link to comments about implementation) that explain why: <http://spambayes.org/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-whitelisting-blacklisting-to-spambayes> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Garyu (garyuthegreat) Date: 2004-12-21 22:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1003063 I'd also like a whitelist function. From a few people, I get/send mails in another language than default. Because it's just such a few, they all get marked as spam or possible spam. A right-click "add sender to whitelist" would solve the problem. My guess it's not that hard to implement (just a guess, sorry), and it would prevent most of my "Possible Spam" classifications, making Spambayes much better! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin) Date: 2004-02-29 04:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=552329 No. Unforunately it's not possible to implement SpamBayes' filtering using the Outlook Rules system, so SpamBayes works independantly of it, and so the "Stop processing" won't have any effect. I would recommend that the best solution would be to create a new folder, and move either all 'whitelisted' mail to it, or everything *except* 'whitelisted' mail to it. Ensure that 'background filtering' is enabled (Advanced tab) and get SpamBayes to filter *only* the folder that doesn't include the 'whitelisted' mail. You'll now have an inbox with mail SpamBayes thinks is ham, and an inbox with mail that your 'whitelist' thinks is ham, and SpamBayes hasn't touched. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dave Rinell (kitchenboy) Date: 2004-02-27 06:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=985524 If I specify the rule as "If Sender is in Contacts, then Stop processing more rules" will this stop it from being moved into the SPAM or possible folder? Or do I need to have the filter on the SPAM / possible folder to move the message back to the Inbox? I don't want to move it to another folder if at all possible... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin) Date: 2004-02-27 06:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=552329 Please read FAQ 6.6: <http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-whitelisting-blacklisting-to-spambayes> Basically, you should just turn on background filtering, and do any whitelisting via Outlook's pretty good rules system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=498106&aid=905648&group_id=61702 _______________________________________________ Spambayes-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-bugs
