"F. Even" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:55:10 -0800
> > From: Stephen Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: addresses being incorrectly added to blacklist
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Quoting "F. Even" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > I'm having a situation where legitimate addresses are getting
> > > added to the blacklist. The only reason I could think of that
> > > this may behappening is that it is an instance where I have
> > > released a message, and the confirmation was never received.
> > > Should these addresses be getting...
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.tmda] grep APPEND config
> > > ...
> > > PENDING_DELETE_APPEND = os.path.expanduser("~/.tmda/lists/blacklist")
> >
> > See http://www.tmda.net/config-vars.html#PENDING_DELETE_APPEND. Setting
> > this variable means that whenever a message is deleted from the pending
> > queue, the sender's address will be automatically added to the given list
> > - your blacklist. This will happen (as you suggest) when no response is
> > seen to a confirmation request within your defined time limit, and the
> > pending queue is cleaned up automatically (see also
> > http://www.tmda.net/config-vars.html#PENDING_CLEANUP_ODDS)
[...]
> OK....I've just had 3 addresses added to my blacklist from messages
> that I'm not sure were ever confirmed. I KNOW I've released them all
> manually, I don't know if the people ever sent their confirmation. If
> I release a message, why should it ever get added to the blacklist,
> even considering how I have my setup configured? This would seem to
> be a bug to me. I am using the latest version this time, that has
> been confirmed.
What Stephen said is correct. When TMDA deletes messages from the
queue, which can happen anytime you receive mail (tmda-filter does the
work), those sender addresses are added to PENDING_DELETE_APPEND.
This may seem weird, but it is the desired behavior. Deleting a
message and blacklisting the sender are not the same thing. If you
want to blacklist a sender, you should explicitly choose to blacklist
them. If you simply want to delete a message, don't add that sender
to your blacklist!
Remove PENDING_DELETE_APPEND from your configuration and you will find
that these problems go away. If you want to keep track of the sender
addresses of email you have deleted, set PENDING_DELETE_APPEND to a
different filename than your blacklist file.
Tim
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