I took your idea and thought on it, as we were having the same issue as you. I _think_ this should work and avoid of the potential 255 character limit.
The whole point is to short-circuit the processing rules before you get to the X-IMAIL-SPAM deletion rule, and actually deliver messages from whitelisted domains/users. iMail doesn't have a processing rule that says "send it anyway" but it DOES have a "copy" rule, which has the side effect of continuing sending to the original recipient. What I have tried is to create a new rule that is processed in order just before the X-IMAIL-SPAM deletion rule. The rule is as follows: F~(@example1.com|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|@example3.com):[EMAIL PROTECTED] com Whitelist a domain with "@example1.com" or whitelist a user with the full address, etc. Copy the message to a new user named "trash" who has an incoming rule of deleting all messages. You can just add additional rules if you hit the character limit, as long as they come before the spam deletion rule. Yes, it's ugly, and I don't quite know how well it would scale if you've got tons of messages, but it uses what we're given by iMail. Any reason this wouldn't work to allow more effective whitelisting? -Phil -----Original Message----- From: Curt Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 9:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Whitelisting Blacklists Trusting IP ranges works in some cases, but some of the addresses which need to be trusted are yahoo addresses, aol, etc - I don't want to trust the entire IP range of the service, just the specific address. The only solution I've come up with so far is to manually add these addresses to the processing rule which moves the mail to the spambox. Example: H~X-IMAIL-SPAM!AND!F!~([EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|domain3.com): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now the main limitation is that the rule can't exceed 255 characters. Hopefully, it won't need to. I still wish there was a way to determine "whitelisting" from within processing rules. "Eric Shanbrom (Ipswitch)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Whitelisting in IMail's Anti-Spam just bypasses the content filtering not the connection filtering which the blacklisting is part of. TO bypass all of these you need to use the trusted IP section Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffery Rehm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Whitelisting Blacklists I'm having the exact same problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: Curt Turner To: Imail List Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 21:46 Subject: [IMail Forum] Whitelisting Blacklists I'm using external DNS blacklists to filter out spam, but I don't want the messages deleted, just redirected to a bulkbox. I have it set up to just add an x-header, then added a rule to move messages with headers containing "X-IMAIL-SPAM" to root-bulk. The problem is that this procedure bypasses the whitelist completely - even if the sender is whitelisted, the mail still has the spam x-header and is dumped in bulk. Is there a way to have the whitelist add its own x-header for use in processing rules? If not, is there any way to have the whitelist override DNSBLs and at the same time not completely delete spammed messages? Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
