[imapfilter-devel] Whitelist Feature Request

[Chase]

You need a an ability to create a white list, basically, you have your
rule definitions

Filter foo
Mask
Mask 
Mask
Action delete

Filter bar
Mask
Mask
Mask
Action delete


Job foo,bar myaccount

A white list would be a group of definitions that are always evaluated
first, if the email matches a rule in that group, then IMAPFILTER will
stop processing on the email and just leave it alone, even if the email
would also match every other definition.

There are to ways you could indicate that a rule group is a white list,
either with a keyword in the definitions

Whitelist foobar
Mask
Mask
Mask
Action none

Job foobar,foo,bar myaccount
Or by marking it in the job line

Job foobar*,foo,bar myaccount

Or, you could always just make the first rule group listed be the white
list group, and force user to have a whitelist defined (even if its
empty).

Whitelists are usually made based on email addresses so the majority of
entries would be mask from "blah" But have the ability to make white
list rules based off of subject and body and headers would be good too.

Currently the only way to make a white list is to move your "white list"
emails to another folder. This is not a good way for the users that
don't organize their email into multiple folders, they have an inbox,
and they have the trash that deleted mail is put into.

Chase Peeler
chasep at cc.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech College of Computing