Re: problem with bbdb whitelist filtering

[Martin Monsorno <monsorno-nospam@gmx.de>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, monsorno-nospam@gmx.de wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I recently enabled spam.el for my incoming mail the following way:
>> 
>> ,----
>>| (spam-initialize)
>>| (setq spam-use-BBDB t)
>> `----
>> 
>> I hope this is the correct way, the idea was the following:
>> - Process mail and mark it as white when the sender is in the bbdb
>>   database.  Marking is done by inserting the header "X-Spammer"
>>   containing a string like "white: From: x@exolution.de"
>> - Now split all mail marked as white into folders depending on the
>>   to-headers
>> - Do the same for mail not marked as white, with destination folders
>>   with the string "-spam" attached
>> 
>> The problem is: this does not work in any case.  E.g., if I send a
>> message to myself, with a From-header set to "xxx@exolution.de",
>> spam.el marks this message as white, despite the fact, that I have
>> no person with this mail-address in my bbdb.
>
> You need spam-use-BBDB-exclusive, I think.

Sorry, I don't think so.  spam-use-BBDB-exclusive would mark messages
from accounts that are not in the bbdb as spam. But the problem is
that some of those messages are marked as white, which shouldn't
happen in any case, right?

-- 
Martin