Marc Barker

Backend server cybersecurity developer

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    3. BoxTrapper - Ignore, White, Black list order

    Additional. Related to above workaround, these days for most users the majority of Challenges are non-deliverable triggered by spam anyway. To reduce this non-deliverable backscatter a BoxTrapper u...

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    ***********************************************************                            Workaround For BoxTrapper ignores whitelisted senders issue. *************************************************...

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    I ask you please put on hold for now in updating the BoxTrapper documentation? I have some possible workarounds which apply Whitelist first making BoxTrapper operate instead as users expect it to. ...

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    I do hope you know what you're doing :-) because seeing this documented so late in the day could well finish BoxTrapper. During the last 20+ years BoxTrapper users  (according what's talked about i...

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    I can see some scenarios where one would want to block whitelisted senders according to subject line criteria. 1. Mitigate spoofing of a whitelisted sender, by blocking certain phrases a spoofer wo...

  • Marc Barker commented,

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    3. BoxTrapper - Ignore, White, Black list order

    Here's an abreviated test. 1. Control. Send email to yourself (you're already authenticaed and on whitelist). Comes straright through. 2. Now manually append to Ignore list a new line: " subject pa...

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    Authentication isn't the issue. The issue is BT is (quietly) discarding messages from whitelisted senders when they trigger the ignore list. Try the 123.. test above!

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    OK that makes sense but Is it also intended behavior to ignore whitelisted senders? (each time they trigger a ignore list rule)

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    I refer to BoxTrapper's own whitelist, not any other whitelist anywhere else. The one located here .../etc/.../.../.boxtrapper/white-list.txt  , usually edited within BoxTrapper.  I've just discove...

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  • Marc Barker commented,

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    3. BoxTrapper - Ignore, White, Black list order

    I've been having this exact same problem for what must have been a long time but I hadn't realised until now what was going on. My email users complain of missing incoming messages and I tell them ...

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