That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks! --- "E. Shanbrom (Ipswitch)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just do: > > F~(@example1.com|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|@example3.com):main > before the > x-imail-spam rule > > Eric S > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Eurs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:13 PM > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Whitelisting Blacklists > > > 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/ > > > 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/
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