> Assuming I would take the needed time to develop that functionality.
> Would you be willing to code the management interface in the DSPAM
> web UI?
> 
I will look if it is possible for me but as I said, I'm not developer
and the only languages I know is Ruby and Bash.
If someone have knowledge to do ...
 
> What about the way the email address is saved? Would just simple
> email address be enough or would you like the whole stuff to support
> regexp? Some storage engines support regexp in SQL. That's the reason
> I ask.
> 
For my needs, just simple email address or domain only is sufficient.
Maybe someone need something else ?

> How would you like the function to work? Should it offer a per user
> storage for white lists or should it offer a layered level of
> whitelisting (aka: search user based whitelist, then search global
> based whitelist)?
> 
"search user based whitelist, then search global based whitelist" this
is a good idea.

> Should those whitelist entries expire? I mean should a given entry be
> deleted after a certain time if not used?
> 
For me, I see this whitelist fully managed by users, so no automatic
actions.

> etc, etc, etc.... A lot of questions where I think the DSPAM
> community should bring all their needs on the table and together we
> choose what to implement and how to implement. I have a whitelisting
> functionality in my setup but not inside DSPAM. I have implemented it
> outside of DSPAM. So I have a certain viewpoint but probably my
> viewpoint is not valid for everyone. I for example add automatically
> every recipient from an outbound message (but only if the sender is
> authenticated with SMTP AUTH) to a whitelist for +/- 90 days. If the
> email address does not send in the specified time range a mail to the
> original sender, then the whitelist entry get's deleted. And so on...
> 
> To all the people on the ML wanting that manual whitelisting
> functionality: let's hear about your needs.
> 
Yes, this functionality would have to cover maximum of needs concerning
whitelist.
You can just add your needs below :
- simple email address matching
- domain matching
- fully managed by user
- user whitelist concatenated with global whitelist
- managed with dspam binary
- ...

> 
> // SteveB

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