Mailing List Archive: [Bug 3185] whitelist is case sensitive

http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3185

------- Additional Comments From felicity@kluge.net 2004-03-16 13:55 -------
Subject: Re: New: whitelist is case sensitive

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:29:45PM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.spamassassin.org wrote:
> It seems that whitelists, and possibly blacklists too, are case sensitive when
> testing inbound email From addresses. Email addresses are not case sensitive,
> so whitelists should probably not be case sensitive either.

Actually domains are case-insensitive, but the username/local-part can
be depending on your MTA.

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------- Additional Comments From bucovina@users.sourceforge.net 2004-03-19 13:32 -------
Well I guess that my bug report then is part bug part feature request.

The bug being that the domain portion matching should be case insensitive w.r.t.
white/black lists.

Then the feature request would be to have a config option, perhaps in a local
or user config file setting that would make the entire matching of email
addresses with different cases still be given a percentage of the points it
would have received if the case matched exactly.

So for example, if I have an entry in my personal prefs like:
preference | value
blacklist_from = hotstuff@adultmail.com

And then I could also have a new setting similar to the following:
preference | value
case_mismatch_precent = 60

Now when I get an email from HotStuff@AdultMail.com, rather than getting 0
points added to the message, this message would get 60% of the full points and
thus no doubt be placed in my SPAM folder. Defaulting the above setting to 0
maintains the current functionality of considering the email from
HotStuff@AdultMail.com to be from a new sender.

Does this sound like a reasonable mix?

Many thx for considering this!!!

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