Re: confirmation not adding to whitelist
Marco Paganini <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general |
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Hi Vicki, On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:58:19PM -0800, Vicki Brown wrote: > Hmmm... I think I know what may be happening. I only send mail through ASK if > it fails some initial checks and SpamAssassin marks it Spam. If, for some > reason, the returned confirmation isn't also marked as SPAM, ASK wouldn't see > that. > > So now, at the beginning of my procmailrc, I have added > :0 fW > * ^Subject:.* Fw: Please confirm (conf# > |/usr/local/etc/ask/bin/ask.py --procmail --loglevel=5 > --logfile=/$PMDIR/ask.log Ah, good you could find an explanation for this strange behavior. There's nothing worse than unexplained weirdness. :) > I'm still a bit confused about whitelist.txt vs in whitelist-local.txt Think about the following situation: 1) ASK receives an email from someone it does not know about 2) ASK sends the confirmation 3) You edit the whitelist.txt file to add someone by hand, but while you have the file in memory... 4) ASK receives the confirmation and adds the user who send an email on (1) to your whitelist 5) Unaware of this, you save the whitelist you have in your editor and lose that entry from your whitelist 6) User in (1) sends you another email, but gets very confused because he/she already replied to the confirmation! See? That's why ASK checks as many files as you want, but will only modify the first one in your list (by default, whitelist.txt). The rule is: Leave whitelist.txt to ASK or manage it through remote commands. The others, you can manually edit. Regards, Paga > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > A-S-K-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/a-s-k-users -- Marco Paganini | UNIX / Linux / Networking [email protected] | PGP: http://www.paganini.net/pgp/ http://www.paganini.net | Magnus Frater te spectat... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/