Re: [Assp-test] Feature request: prevent whitelisting of individual e-mail addres

[Trevor J. <Trevor@Videlicet.com>]

>Send it to the redlist.

Ah. I had to look in close detail at the redRe description to see 
this. I had not seen that the red list serves two distinct purposes. 
The first paragraph appears to summarise the function of the red 
list. The second paragraph does not make it immediately obvious that 
there is a second, distinct function, given the description of the 
first. Here's what the description of 1.3.5(23.6) says:

"If an email matches this Perl regular expression it will be 
considered redlisted. The redlist is a list of addresses that cannot 
contribute to the whitelist, and who are not considered local, even 
if their mail is from a local computer. For example, if someone goes 
on a vacation and turns on their email's autoresponder, put them on 
the redlist until they return. Then as they reply to every spam they 
receive they won't corrupt your non-spam collection or whitelist: 
\[autoreply\]
"Redlisted addresses will not be added to the whitelist. Redlisted 
messages will not be stored in the SPAM/NOTSPAM-collection. As all 
fields marked by * this field accepts a list separated by | or a 
specified file 'file:files/redre.txt' "

To make it much clearer, I'd change this to:

"If an email matches this Perl regular expression it will be 
considered redlisted.

"The redlist serves two separate purposes:

"1) the redlist is a list of addresses that cannot contribute to the 
whitelist, and which are not considered local, even if their mail is 
from a local computer. For example, if someone goes on a vacation and 
turns on their email's autoresponder, put them on the redlist until 
they return. Then as they reply to every spam they receive they won't 
corrupt your non-spam collection or whitelist: \[autoreply\]

"2) Redlisted addresses will not be added to the whitelist when your 
local user sends mail to that address, thereby preventing accidental 
pollution of the white list by, say, inadvertent replies by your 
users to e-mails from the spammer.

"Redlisted messages will not be stored in the 
SPAM/NOTSPAM-collection. As all fields marked by * this field accepts 
a list separated by | or a specified file 'file:files/redre.txt' "


Note how reason 1 is not what I was looking for, since I want to 
prevent my user from accidentally adding a 'spammer' address to the 
white list when my user sends an e-mail to that one recipient. 
Clearly delineated, reason 2 shows that the redlist can be used to 
prevent addresses reaching the whitelist (which IS what I wanted but 
is not obvious, since reason 1 is about our own users not being able 
to add a To: address to the white list).

>- and upgrade to 1.3.9.1 please

I can't do that, since the boss won't yet let it happen on his 
server. (I DO use the latest 1.3 on my own server, and, for testing, 
2.x on another of my own servers.)

>I forgot to mention, there is even a setting, which will add 
>automatically this type of flip-flopper to the redlist:

Thanks. I had not seen this.

The reason Ihad not seen it was probably that EmailWhiteRemovalToRed 
is in the E-mail Interface section (even in 2.0.0(4.08), but it has 
little to do with e-mail. It's really about the red list and might be 
better in the Spam Control section under the redRe expression field.

As an aside, perhaps half an em could be added to the bottom of 
paragraphs in the style.css for assp, so that sequential paragraphs 
are more easily distinguishable/readable. :-)

HTH.

T.