Version: (using KDE KDE 3.0.3) Would be nice to have an option to automatically add to the spamassassin whitelist every address in the Address Book as well as every address to which the user sends an email. Also a feature to right-click on any email address in kmail and have it added to the spamassassin whitelist or blacklist. This would greatly reduce the chance of spamassassin false positives on incoming emails from important persons.
Yep, this bug definately gets my votes. However it may be worth noting two other bugs of mine: KAddressbook Bug 72653 and Spamassassin bug #3408: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3408 Those deals with the use of Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF), in the first case, export FOAF-files from KAddressbook, and in the second case use FOAF to build whitelists. There is a lot of interest in the latter, and in fact some running code. It may be better to use FOAF to build whitelists from KAddressbook, and you gain as a bonus a whitelist including the contacts of your friends.
Changing this wish to be a bit more generic (generic spam filter instead of spamassassin) Note that you can add the filter "From is in addressbook" before the spam filter. If that filter has no actions and "if this filter matches, stop processing", the spam filters will not get executed, therefore whitelisting all people in your addressbook. This is of course an incomplete solution.
*** Bug 149268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just in case :-) Please make setting sender as a "trusted person" easier -- I would like to RMB on mail marked as spam, choose "trusted sender" ("ham sender"?) and KMail will do the rest -- create appropriate filter so any mail from such sender would not be even thought as spam.
BTW, I have this project running now: http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/FOAFWhitelisting I've got a plugin for Spamassassin and QPSMTPD that can use a unidimensional trust metric, and some code to compute it based on social networks. It is not production ready, and not tested. Especially the trust metric computation is not there, it is not efficient enough. Nevertheless, I'd like to reemphasise the role that FOAF plays in this.
Related bugs about addressbook entries and spam filtering: Bug 51517 Bug 158756 bug 158758
Switching this bug to KMail2. Maybe http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/FOAFWhitelisting can be of interest.
Actually, Anne-Marie, that's my project. I really never had time to commit to it I'm afraid, so it is dormant :-( The necessary infrastructure is there, however, the fine folks at Garlik Inc has done it at http://foaf.qdos.com/ (I know them personally), so it could be done. If we need anything on the client side, NEPOMUK components could be reused. So, we're really, really close here, it just needs a bit of developer time and a bit of support from Garlik folks.
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It isn't resolved in the sense that it isn't a problem anymore. However, in the current environment, there isn't a realistic fix. It might become realistic if https://solidproject.org/ or through some custom API. I guess this could be resolved as WONTFIX, and then we can return into it if it becomes a possibility.