[Tickets #5956] Re: Global whitelist spamassassin accidental deletion via imp.

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=5956
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 Ticket             | 5956
 Updated By         | gimili17 at gmail.com
 Summary            | Global whitelist spamassassin accidental deletion via imp.
 Queue              | Sam
 Version            | HEAD
 Type               | Bug
 State              | Not A Bug
 Priority           | 2. Medium
 Owners             | 
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gimili17 at gmail.com (2007-12-08 17:52) wrote:

> I think I finally understand what's going on here. The global 
> defaults are *just* defaults. If a user has one whitelist address, 
> then they will use *only* their own whitelist, not the global 
> defaults you have saved.

Hmm...I don't think that is true and to me that does not make sense.  To
me when an email is whitelisted under global it applies to everyone whether
or not they have there own personal list.  I just did a test.  I added my
gmail address to the global whitelist under an admin user.  I logged in
under a test user.  I addded a dummy email on their whitelist.  Then I sent
them an email from my gmail account and the email header reads: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-97.3 required=3.7 tests=AWL,SPF_NEUTRAL,
	USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=3.2.3

Therefore global list is still being used?  Maybe someone else could
verify in case I flubbed something.  It only takes a few minutes.

> When you whitelisted an address from IMP, that went into your 
> whitelist, not the global one. Thereafter you saw just that one 
> address. The globals were still there and you probably would have 
> seen them if you deleted the one address. But when you made that one 
> address global, then yes, you deleted the existing globals.

IMHO:  There should be a warning message saying that "rather than adding
one more email to global you are deleting all your existing whitelist." 
Sometimes this whitelist is long and has taken a number of years to fine
tune.

If they were defaults for each user why do they get deleted when you add
one more entry to the whitelist from imp without at least a warning?

Maybe there should be a button the that says "Show me the globals" if they
can be so easily inadvertently hidden or at at least a note explain what
happened.

> So there's no bug here, just a misunderstanding about the global 
> list. I suggest that you use a separate user account to maintain the 
> global defaults, given how you want it to behave.

Sure seems like funny behavior if not a bug.  Beside the button it says
"Make settings Global" not "Make these defaults".  I agree that using a
separate account to maintain the globals helps but you shouldn't have to do
that.  What happens if you have a system wide junk folder that you want to
scan with imp and flag a bunch of messages and then hit whitelist?  You
would think that clicking whitelist under imp wouldn't cause you to lose
the visibility of the global whitelist.  With the current setup one can
easily inadvertently delete a whitelist of important contacts as I recently
did and then get angry calls when emails from important contacts (that you
were told to whitlist) are found in the spam folders.  ** Thank you very
kindly for your help working through this. **



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