[imp] Blacklisting

[Jan Schneider]

Please keep discussions on the list.

Zitat von Matt Wills <TheGuy at virtualvermont.com>:

> on 01/29/09 5:18 AM Jan Schneider said:
>> Zitat von Matt Wills <TheGuy at VirtualVermont.com>:
>>
>>> I have been testing Horde webmail features.
>>>
>>> Blacklist Help says only that "The blacklist is a list of email  
>>> addresses known to send email that you do not wish to see in your  
>>> INBOX." There are no specific instructions as to what to enter.
>>>
>>> By contrast, Whitelist Help says only that "Each address should be  
>>> entered on a separate line." Slightly more informing, but still  
>>> lacking. Does that mean specific addresses, or do wildcards work?
>>>
>>> I wanted to find out if the Blacklist worked with wildcards, so I  
>>> entered "*@gmail.com" and set it to put such messages in a folder  
>>> I named "Trapped." I sent a test message from my GMail account to  
>>> the account I am looking at in Horde.
>>>
>>> The message came in to the In box. Initial conclusion is that  
>>> wildcards do not work, at least not with the commonly used  
>>> wildcard syntax..
>>>
>>> I then changed the Blacklist entry to my actual GMail address, not  
>>> the wildcard. I sent another message from my GMail account.
>>>
>>> Same thing happened. The message showed up in the In box.  
>>> Secondary conclusion is that the blacklist doesn't work at all.
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Whether wildcards work and how they have to be specified depends on  
>> the filter backend. There is no automatic translation from a  
>> general wildcard syntax to the specific backend. That's why it not  
>> further explained in the interface.
>>
>> Jan.
>>
> OK, the wildcard thing was just a stab in the dark anyway, but why  
> don't specific addresses work?

They should. But you didn't even say which filter backend you use,  
whether you checked your log files, etc.

Jan.

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