MDaemon Email Server 25.5

Allow List (no filtering)

Use this page to designate recipient addresses that you wish to be exempt from spam filtering. Messages destined for these addresses will not be processed through the spam filter.

Allow List (by recipient)

This list is similar to Allow List (no filtering) above, except that rather than exempting messages for the recipient from Spam Filter processing, they will be processed but have their Spam Filter score reduced by the amount specified on the Spam Filter Settings page. Therefore including an address on this allow list does not automatically guarantee that a message to that address will not be considered spam. For example, if you have the spam score threshold set to 5.0 and the allow list value set to 100, and then a particularly excessive spam message arrives that gets a spam score of 105.0 or higher before the allow list value is subtracted, then the final spam score of the message will be at least 5.0, thus denoting it as spam. This is highly unlikely, however, because spam rarely has a value that high unless it contains some other exceptionally high-scoring element, such as a block listed address.

Allow List (by sender)

This allow list is similar to Allow List (by recipient) above, except that spam score reduction is based on who the message is from rather than based on the recipient.

Block List (by sender)

This list is like Allow List (by sender) above, except that instead of reducing the Spam Filter score, it is increased by the amount specified on the Spam Filter Settings page when the message is from one of the listed addresses. Thus messages from blocked addresses will typically be marked as spam. However, including an address on this list does not guarantee that a message from that address will always be considered spam. For example, if a message comes from a block listed sender but is addressed to a allow listed recipient, then the score modifiers may offset each other and cause the message to have a final score that is below the spam score threshold. This could also happen if you have the block list score modifier set particularly low.