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By default, whenever you send a message, the recipient' | By default, whenever you send a message, the recipient' | ||
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+ | ====What the whitelist and blacklist do==== | ||
+ | When an address is found on the whitelist or blacklist, then the spam score is adjusted by 100 x (the relevant [[reference: | ||
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+ | If you wish, you could adjust the rule weights so that one has precedence over the other, eg set the whitelist weight to ' | ||
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=====Blacklist===== | =====Blacklist===== | ||
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Because of this it is often not worthwhile putting addresses onto the Blacklist manually either. The only case that is generally useful is if you have signed up to a mailing list, and they are refusing to remove you from the list, but this is quite rare. | Because of this it is often not worthwhile putting addresses onto the Blacklist manually either. The only case that is generally useful is if you have signed up to a mailing list, and they are refusing to remove you from the list, but this is quite rare. | ||
- | =====Local Addresses===== | + | ====Fields which the Blacklist checks==== |
+ | The Blacklist currently checks the addresses in the **Return-Path**, | ||
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+ | The Blacklist will not be checked if the header contains three or more ' | ||
+ | =====Whitelist===== | ||
+ | ====Local Addresses==== | ||
If you put an address on the whitelist which is also in a 'local domain', | If you put an address on the whitelist which is also in a 'local domain', | ||
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Note that in many cases, [[allowing_mail_relay_through_vpop3|external users can actually send mail through VPOP3]] as if they were local users, so their mail won't be spam filtered at all. | Note that in many cases, [[allowing_mail_relay_through_vpop3|external users can actually send mail through VPOP3]] as if they were local users, so their mail won't be spam filtered at all. | ||
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+ | ====Fields which the Whitelist checks==== | ||
+ | The Whitelist currently checks the addresses in the **Reply-To** and **From** header fields. | ||
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+ | The Whitelist will not be checked if the header contains three or more ' | ||
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+ | The ' | ||
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+ | ====Whitelist result info==== | ||
+ | The spam filter adds a header to the message called ' |