Crossposted to Karmasphere-users and to SpamAssassin-users....
Igor Chudov wrote:
I have several mail folders (linux mailbox files) that are a good
source of whitelist information. For example, I am sure that all To:
addresses in my sent folder, and all From: addresses in my friends or
ebay folder, are good.
This is an excellent approach that I can vouch for :)
http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/735/2004/09/search/bWVuZ3dvbmc/
sort/time_rev/page/2/entry/12:54/6619580/
I'm glad to say that things have matured since 2004.... see below.
So what I would like to do is to generate a file with a list of
addresses that I know are good, and to give them a good negative score
(to decrease probability of false positive).
Based on my readings, I could not find a feature that would offer
this, have I missed anything?
On Jul 21, 2007, at 6:23 AM, Matt Kettler wrote:
Nope, you'd have to prefix each address with "whitelist_from" and
put it
into your user_prefs, or a .cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin.
As Matt Kettler suggested, you really want whitelist_auth rather than
whitelist_from.
Keeping your whitelist in a locally maintained .cf file is a good
first step.
A good second step might be publishing that file as a DNSWL so other
people can benefit from it.
If we take a few more steps down that path, we end up at a possible
future that I would like to invite you to join.
If you don't mind putting your whitelist on a remotely hosted site,
you could upload it to Karmasphere, the reputation hosting platform
I've been building over the last couple of years.
The reason I'm inviting people to upload their whitelists to
Karmasphere is because I'd like to build a meta-whitelist drawn from
multiple sources.
I am extending Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Karmasphere to provide
functionality similar to whitelist_auth.
If persons P1, P2, P3, P4, ... Pn upload their whitelists, then the
community could benefit. Imagine, for example, a rule at Karmasphere
that says "identify domains that appear in at least three or more of
my friends' whitelists". The next rev of the Karmasphere plugin will
show a detailed explanation, such as which third parties caused an
address to be whitelisted.
If this is an approach that makes sense to you, I would be happy to
help write some perl scripts and otherwise get things up and running.
