"Trell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying to email a guy at his hotmail account but have > not been getting any replies. So I called him and come to find out > he has been responding just I never get the mail. This is when I > realized that TMDA checks the blacklist first.
Monique's answer is correct. For the record, TMDA has no idea what a blacklist is, nor what a whitelist is. TMDA knows only now to read a list of email addresses from a file or database. If the sender's address (the from* rules) or the recipient's address (the to* rules) match an address in the list, TMDA performs whatever action you have specified for that list in your incoming filter. You could, if you want to confuse yourself thoroughly, say the following in your incoming filter: from-file ~/.tmda/lists/whitelist drop which would mean that you have "blacklisted" everyone in your whitelist. Finally, the first matching address wins. If you put your blacklist before your whitelist in your incoming filter, a match in the blacklist wins. It is generally more effective to put your blacklist first, particularly if you whitelist entire domains, but put exceptions to any blacklisted domains before the blacklist itself. Remember that you can put exceptions directly in your incoming filter using the 'from' rule to match a single address or wildcard. The following sequence would work to solve your particular problem: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok from [EMAIL PROTECTED] drop You could have either or both of those addresses in list files and use the 'from-file' rule, instead; the important point is to make sure you accept your friend's address before dropping the rest of the domain. Tim _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
