[Mimedefang] Mimedefang delay_checks problem

[Kelson Vibber]

At 11:26 AM 10/23/2003, Bob Robichaud wrote:
>Yikes!  Not much of a programmer.  I beleive Spamassassin has it's own
>whitelist feature.  I'll see how that works.

SpamAssassin's whitelist feature works by subtracting points from the score 
if one of the recipients in the To or CC fields is found in the 
whitelist.  It can't deal with BCCs, and it will affect *all* recipients 
even if only one is whitelisted.

It's probably not quite what you're looking for.

There've been some recent discussions on implementing this through 
MIMEDefang, not through the access DB, but through checking recipients 
against a list defined in the MD filter.  (You have to call 
stream_by_recipient if there's a mix of opt-out and non-opt out 
recipients.)  Their mail will still get processed by MIMEDefang, but you 
can set it up to skip spamassassin and other checks for those users.

It means duplicating the information (since you'll still need the access DB 
and delay_checks in order to bypass the DNSBLs), but if the list is small 
it shouldn't be *too* painful.


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>