[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Feature Requests-905648 ] Option to whitelist Outlook Contacts / Address Book

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Feature Requests item #905648, was opened at 2004-02-27 19:19
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Category: Outlook
Group: None
Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Dave Rinell (kitchenboy)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Option to whitelist Outlook Contacts / Address Book

Initial Comment:
It would be great if there was an option to "Whitelist" 
mail from e-mail addresses attached to Outlook Contacts 
and/or Address Book.

Before using SpamBayes, I was using PopFile with an 
Outlook plugin and this feature was very helpful - except 
for a few annoyances (the whitelist was not dynamic - 
you had to load the list from contacts periodically 
because it was a static list).

This could even be extended to allow right-click --
> "Add Sender to WhiteList" functionality.

The messages from whitelist members could still be 
scanned, ... if they looked like spam, they could go into 
Possible - just not directly into SPAM.

SpamBayes is GREAT - this would make it that much 
better.

Great Work

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>Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-12-22 11:33

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Unfortunately implementation is tricky.  FAQ 6.6 has a
comments (and a link to comments about implementation) that
explain why:

<http://spambayes.org/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-whitelisting-blacklisting-to-spambayes>

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Comment By: Garyu (garyuthegreat)
Date: 2004-12-22 11:16

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I'd also like a whitelist function. From a few people, I
get/send mails in another language than default. Because
it's just such a few, they all get marked as spam or
possible spam. A right-click "add sender to whitelist" would
solve the problem. 

My guess it's not that hard to implement (just a guess,
sorry), and it would prevent most of my "Possible Spam"
classifications, making Spambayes much better!

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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-02-29 17:19

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No.  Unforunately it's not possible to implement SpamBayes' 
filtering using the Outlook Rules system, so SpamBayes works 
independantly of it, and so the "Stop processing" won't have 
any effect.

I would recommend that the best solution would be to create 
a new folder, and move either all 'whitelisted' mail to it, or 
everything *except* 'whitelisted' mail to it.  Ensure 
that 'background filtering' is enabled (Advanced tab) and get 
SpamBayes to filter *only* the folder that doesn't include 
the 'whitelisted' mail.

You'll now have an inbox with mail SpamBayes thinks is ham, 
and an inbox with mail that your 'whitelist' thinks is ham, and 
SpamBayes hasn't touched.

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Comment By: Dave Rinell (kitchenboy)
Date: 2004-02-27 19:40

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If I specify the rule as "If Sender is in Contacts, then Stop 
processing more rules" will this stop it from being moved into 
the SPAM or possible folder?  Or do I need to have the filter 
on the SPAM / possible folder to move the message back to 
the Inbox?  I don't want to move it to another folder if at all 
possible...

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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-02-27 19:25

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Please read FAQ 6.6:

<http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-whitelisting-blacklisting-to-spambayes>

Basically, you should just turn on background filtering, and
do any whitelisting via Outlook's pretty good rules system.

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