On Dec 16, 2004, at 5:58 AM, Jeremy Hughes wrote:
> 2. SpamSieve has a white list which contains the names and email
> addresses of messages which have been marked as good. I have had a few
> problems with this - specifically, where a good email is sent from
> (say)
> "Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". In this case SpamSieve will whitelist
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (which is good) and will also whitelist "Steve",
> which
> is problemmatic. A few days later, I might get an email from "Steve
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", and SpamSieve will pass this through as a non-
> spam email because it has whitelisted "Steve". I can resolve the
> problem
> by deleting or disabling "Steve" from the white list, but I think that
> there should be a preference option to control the way in which names
> are
> automatically whitelisted. It would be better if only names that are
> reasonably distinct get whitelisted - e.g. first/second name
> combinations
> ("Steve Smith").
For exactly this reason, SpamSieve 2.2.2 and later do not automatically
whitelist simple names.
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Michael Tsai <http://www.c-command.com>
