[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-812959 ] Needs address whitelist

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Bugs item #812959, was opened at 2003-09-26 21:00
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Category: Outlook
Group: Outlook 008
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nick Tatham (nicktatham)
Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Summary: Needs address whitelist

Initial Comment:
I am running Spambayes Outlook plugin 0.81. I have been

running Spambayes outlook plugin for several months.



I get some emails that look like spam but aren't, but

they get missfilled as possible spam and sometimes as

definite spam.



I think that a useful addition would be a whitelist by

email address that would allow me to flag these as

"don't bother checking this stuff". 



Then Spambayes would be perfect.



Unless this can be done with Outlook filters? I can't

fiigure how though.



Nick





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>Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2003-09-28 15:09

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Please see FAQ 6.6:

<http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#why-don-t-you-

add-whitelisting-blacklisting-to-spambayes>



There has also been extensive discussion about whitelisting 

on the spambayes mailing lists.  If you google for "spambayes 

whitelisting site:mail.python.org" you'll find lots.



And yes, you can use the Outlook filters to do this.  Simply 

use spambayes' background filtering mode, which means that 

it will only filter *after* outlook is finished applying rules.  

Then set up Outlook rules to move all the mail you want 

whitelisted to a folder that spambayes doesn't watch 

(Inbox.Whitelist, for example).

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Comment By: Martin Kretz (kretz)
Date: 2003-09-28 08:44

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A good candidate to use as a "white list" would be the 

address book in Outlook, i.e. "Contacts".



/M

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