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

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Comment	>> 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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