Feature Requests item #2533836, was opened at 2009-01-24 22:28 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sbajic You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1126468&aid=2533836&group_id=250683
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Robert Boyd (rphenix) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Ability to add whitelisted addresses Initial Comment: DSPAM can be a bit slow to learn emails you only get say once every few months it would be great if you could manually add a whitelisted address in the DSPAM UI. While this can be done at the MTA level that would mean bypassing DSPAM and missing an opportunity to train the database. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Stevan Bajic (sbajic) Date: 2009-05-31 23:55 Message: The problem with the addressbook lookup is that not everyone has the possibility to query the addressbook for each and every user. Some mail clients have their addressbook locally and querying the addressbook is not possible. I think we NEED to educate the DSPAM user base that whitelisting manually in DSPAM is a bad thing. I mean: If whitelisting in DSPAM is the most significant thing keeping mail from a certain sender to not get tagged by DSPAM as spam, then you have definitely a big problem. Then your data/tokens in DSPAM are in a very, very bad shape and it's good, that DSPAM tagged the message as SPAM (forcing you to reclassify and help DSPAM learn). I do however have some things in my mind that could help accelerating whitelisting in DSPAM. One thing would be to add a special whitelist token for the senders domain and use that to slightly tune the probability towards innocent if there is a positive match or a higher hit in innocent then in spam. Another thing could be to parse all the received header lines and construct some kind of "trusted delivery path" in relation to a sender and/or sender domain. And have that "trusted delivery path" behave +/- the same as mentioned above. Or forget all that token thing and introduce a plain text file or preference where one can just add the bare email address and use that to whitelist BUT in case of whitelisting that way NOT automatically train DSPAM with the tokens (that would come +/- to the same technique as doing it on the MTA level). But again: I am not that hot in adding users manually to the DSPAM whitelist. I know, I know... people like it but as I wrote above: If whitelisting is the thing keeping your DSPAM instance in not tagging a big part of your mail communication as spam, then your tokens are in a very bad shape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Cockings (paulcockings) Date: 2009-05-31 22:05 Message: Imported Comment: dspam-community ticket 2475637 Date: 2009-01-15 06:41 Sender: dovzamir In itself, this looks like good idea and it has come up as a feature request many times on the dspam-users list. However, using the "bare address" can be easily abused by spammers masquerading as someone you know (which, I believe, is quite common right now). This would completely defeat the purpose of dspam. We need to rethink this one if we want to implement it. How about looking through your address book to whitelist everything in there automatically? Steeve, what do you think, could your patch achieve this? But we still need to figure out how to do it without making a convenient security hole for spammers. I have some far-fetched ideas, but they all seem to need the cooperation of the sender. Ideas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Cockings (paulcockings) Date: 2009-05-31 22:03 Message: Imported Comment: dspam-community ticket 2475637 Date: 2009-01-09 17:40 Sender: steeeeeveee Hallo Paul This would be possible to do. But one issue is that DSPAM does use the whole FROM line for the white list and white listing your buddies from day one would require you to know the exact FROM line of their mails. Another option would be to weaken the white listing algorithm to just include the bare email address and white list just the pure bare email address. I could write easy a patch for that. Let me know if you need/want that. Kind Regards from Switzerland Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Cockings (paulcockings) Date: 2009-05-31 22:02 Message: Imported comment from dspam-community # 2475637 Paul Cockings ( paulcockings ) - 2008-12-29 20:59 WHITELIST IMPROVEMENT IDEAS Option via web gui to set whitelist from day one. Instead of waiting for 10+ email to pass for auto white listing, it would be good to setup your known buddies from day 1 of using dspam-community ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1126468&aid=2533836&group_id=250683 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. 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