Ok, just for my understanding, does whitelist not mean that dspam trusts the 
from address?  If not, what does whitelist mean?

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:04:48 -0400, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Samuel Clough wrote:
>> This keeps coming up from time to time.  Is there a valid reason that
> you
>> cannot manually set a whitelist (in a table for example) ?
> 
> Yes.  The From: header is perhaps the most easily forged element of an
> e-mail.
> It isn't trustworthy.  Period.  dspam deals with statistical methods of
> judging
> how likely a message is spam.  The whitelist feature is only available
> from
> within the larger framework because it has to be able to be overturned if
> and
> when that From: address _is_ forged.
> 
> If you really want to whitelist some address, use your MTA's configuration
> to
> avoid sending the e-mail through dspam for those addresses.
> 
> John
> 
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