I'm just beginning to try TMDA, and the frequent mention of "auto-whitelisting" is very confusing to me. It's my understanding that the default behavior is to automatically whitelist senders who successfully respond to the challenge email and confirm they are (presumably) a real human. In my tests, this does appear to be the case, as everybody who confirms is added to my "confirmed" list and is no longer challenged from that point on.
While I do understand that "confirmed" and "whitelist" are two separate list files, for all practical purposes they seem to be treated identically. Both lists have identical rules in my default incoming filter (created by tmda-cgi):
from-file /home/me/.tmda/lists/whitelist ok from-file /home/me/.tmda/lists/confirmed ok
So what's the difference? I can see the benefit to the hook that CONFIRM_APPEND provides in some situations, most notablly if you'd like to append confirmed users to a separate shared file of some kind. Is it also beneficial in situations where you aren't sharing lists with other users? As frequently as this feature is mentioned, I'm left with the impression that it is very important for common usage, but so far I just don't see why.
What am I missing?
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