Mailing List Archive: Whitelist recipient to

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 00:57, Richard Bewley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, the problem I'm having is, some users want to disable spam
> filtering. So, say asmith@friend.ly.net wants to disable spam filtering.
> So, I add, whitelist_to asmith@friend.ly.net. But, then when a spammer
> sends a message to asmith@friend.ly.net; rbewley@friend.ly.net, because
> asmith was whitelisted, I get a copy of the spam message even though I want
> filtering.
>
> Is there a whitelist_recipient_to, and if so, will this work correctly?
>

Not sure about recipient_to, but we thought about this problem a long
time and came up with a solution which works with exim. Basically
anybody who wants all their spam has to regsiter to say so, we then put
them into a database (though a flat file would work to) and then set
some headers in the email to ensure that if the spam score is over the
trigger, then any recipient that is not in the all_spam list does not
get the message delivered.

I wrote a web page on how we did it here (ignore the stuff about student
address, that is just in because we do not filter student email).

http://www.sprocket.lboro.ac.uk/~ron/email/SPAM_filtering_system.htm

Ron

> Thanks,
> Richard
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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
01509 222329