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

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Feature Requests item #905648, was opened at 2004-02-26 22:19
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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: Dave Rinell (kitchenboy)
Date: 2004-02-26 22:40

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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: 2004-02-26 22:25

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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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