[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Feature Requests-943116 ] White list for domains/email addresses

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Feature Requests item #943116, was opened at 2004-04-27 09:04
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Category: pop3proxy
Group: None
>Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: DarkLaser (darklaser)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: White list for domains/email addresses

Initial Comment:
      A nice feature would be to have a domain/email 
address white list where you could specify email 
addresses which should be marked as ham without 
regard to content.  It would also be nice to be able to 
say anything from the domain belonging to the company 
I work for should also be marked as ham regardless of 
content.

Anyway, my 2bits.

Thanks,
David

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>Comment By: DarkLaser (darklaser)
Date: 2004-04-29 06:46

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Anadelonbrin, thanks for the url.  I had looked for something 
about white lists, but couldn’t find it.  

I maintain that a white list would be useful.  Perhaps not to 
some, but very much so for others.  I have received maybe 1 
or 2 spam claiming to be from someone on the domain for the 
company I work for in the last year, and never have received 
any claiming to be from any of my 4 personal domains.  
However, the current false positive ratio is horrible.  Try 85% 
of my good email is falsely being marked as spam.  Look at 
the number of emails I have trained, with that many trained, I 
should be getting near perfect results.
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Total emails trained: Spam: 9728 Ham: 4939
SpamBayes has processed 546 messages - 4 (1%) good, 538 
(99%) spam and 4 (0%) unsure.
29 messages were manually classified as good (23 were false 
positives).
517 messages were manually classified as spam (0 were false 
negatives).
2 unsure messages were manually identified as good, and 2 as 
spam.
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Ignoring the unsure messages, out of 27 good emails, 4 were 
actually marked as good and 23 as spam.  That is ridiculous.  
Perhaps I need to change something in my settings, but the 
majority of those good emails are from this one domain, so in 
my case a white list would make a world of difference.  If one 
or two spam a year get through because of a white list, no 
biggie, I can handle that.  That’s a lot easier than having to 
go manually remove the word 'spam,' from the subject of 85% 
of my email.  

I don’t have any experience with python (I’m a perl man 
myself), otherwise I would look at building a white list to send 
to the project manager.  Anyway, I still think this item should 
remain on the wish list.

Thanks,
David

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Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-04-28 18:45

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Please see FAQ 6.6:

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

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