Auto-Whitelisting

Well, kind of thinking out loud here...

If your e-mail client creates a copy of every outgoing e-mail message
(for example, in a 'sent' folder) in readable format, you could easily
parse this for recipient addresses, compare it to the active whitelist,
and add any missing entries.

All you would need to do is know the location of your 'sent' folder, and
the syntax used for listing the recipient addresses.  You may also have
to clean the stuff up a little.  For example, I have some addresses that
are in this syntax:

To: [email protected]

and I have others that are in this syntax:

To: Recipient <[email protected]>

You'd have to get rid of the brackets, maybe make everything lower (or
upper) case for comparisons, and get rid of any superfluous text.  You
could probably figure out how your mail client does it (by taking a look
at the file), and script your own whitelist-adding facility.

Again, just thinking out loud, but I'm actually considering taking this
little project on.  It doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult.

~ Derek



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