[Mimedefang] List of From that are not spam?

[Philip Clever]

Will the white lists for SA in the share/spamassassin directory not work
with MIMEDefang?

-Philip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Simpson" <Simpsonb at hillsboroughcounty.org>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] List of From that are not spam?


> Add a similar entry below to /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-mimedefang.cf.
>
> whitelist_from *user at domain.com* *@domain2.com*
>
> MimeDefang will look at the From: section of the email for this info.
>
> Brett
>
> >>> jonk at otsiweb.com 08/22/02 01:04PM >>>
> Enviroment :
> Freebsd 4.6,Latest version of Sendmail,Mimedefang,Spamassassin
>
> One of our companies empoyees has requested that certain e-mail's she
> recieves not be marked as spam.
>
> Possible solutions :
> The simpliest is to add a check like so
> (pseudo code)
> if($From!~/sender at domain.com|sender1 at another.com|send at jim.com/)
> {
> #process spam assassin rules or set boolean to indicate not to
> later in code
> }
>
> but this does not seem very scalable.  I was thinking it would be better
> to have a text file that lists all the "OK" domains that is loaded at
> start so that the list doesn't have to be reloaded for each email
> request.  Downside being you would have to restart the mimedefang
> service with changes. The list values can be stuffed into either an
> array or hash and the perl code can check to see if the current $From
> exists before passing off to spamassassin.
>
> Does Mimedefang currently do this and I missed it?  If not does the
> above approach sound reasonable?
>
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