Proposal For New Whitelists Options

[Jeff G.]

I would like a capability of using new Whitelists in the following ways:

1. "email filtering whitelist", on a checkmark basis (like the IP Based
email filtering blacklists). This would include: IronPort's various Bonded
Sender lists; country-based lists (for example, EU countries for those EU
users interested in suing for EU spam) from services.net,
rbl.cluecentral.net, and blackholes.us; and others as they become available.
I personally would only check the box for IronPort's Bonded Sender Plus.

2. "personal domain whitelist" would be the new name of the current
"personal whitelist", on a new "personal whitelists" page. It would
continue to use the current rules, matching from the right side of the
"From" or "Sender" field, including matching beyond the @ sign. Attempts to
report spam from domains on this list would be defaulted off by the
reporting system, and challenged with a confirmation dialog in interactive
mode.

3. "personal ip whitelist" would keep us from reporting our own mailservers
from Held Mail, which has been happening to more and more people recently.
It would also be on a new "personal whitelists" page. Attempts to report IP
Addresses on this list would be defaulted off by the reporting system, and
challenged with a confirmation dialog in interactive mode.

4. "personal localpart whitelist" would keep us from reporting messages from
various RFC2142-compliant addresses, like Postmaster and Abuse, plus
MAILER-DAEMON and <>, on a proactive basis. It would also be on a new
"personal whitelists" page. It would match from the left side of the "From"
or "Sender" field, including matching beyond the @ sign. Attempts to report
spam from localparts on this list would be defaulted off by the reporting
system, and challenged with a confirmation dialog in interactive mode.

Of course, these would need to be countered by "personal blacklists",
including "personal domain blacklist", "personal ip blacklist", and
"personal localpart blacklist".

Also, precedence rules would be that a more specific (longer) listing has
more weight than a less specific (shorter) listing, and in case of a tie,
white has more weight than black.

What do you think?