[Mimedefang] score USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO
Bill Cole
mdlist-20140424 at billmail.scconsult.com
Tue Nov 21 10:32:39 EST 2017
On 20 Nov 2017, at 16:41 (-0500), Kris Deugau wrote:
> USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO applies to all mail for a given recipient; IMO
> it's a crude hack to work around cases where whatever is calling SA
> can't use the SA userprefs system to just change the threshold
> instead.
It is very useful for protecting role aliases (e.g. abuse, postmaster)
that are mapped to targets (e.g. root or an off-system address) that
should not generally be left unprotected.
It also is useful to allow end users to create ad hoc tagged addresses
on the fly that get more lenient treatment without needing to create any
per-address config on the server. If the tag (or in some cases, the
whole local-part for a 1-user virtual domain) matches a specific
pattern, it is given a pass round the insane local blacklist and a
SpamAssassin bonus. Users can kill a particular tagged address by moving
mail to that address into a special IMAP mailbox. This is far simpler
than training users to manage a user_prefs file or database record.
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