Whitelists and Blacklists

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Whitelists and Blacklists
- Manage whitelists and blacklists with iRedAdmin-Pro
- Manage whitelists and blacklists with SQL commands

DEPRECATED

WARNING: THIS DOCUMENT IS DEPRECATED, PLEASE manage white/blacklists with iRedAPD instead, doc here.

This tutorial shows you how to whitelist and blacklist senders or recipients with iRedAdmin-Pro and script shipped in iRedAPD (since iRedAPD-1.7.1).

Manage whitelists and blacklists with iRedAdmin-Pro

With iRedAdmin-Pro, you can manage several levels of whitelists and blacklists:

Global white/blacklists: under menu System -> Anti Spam -> Whitelists & Blacklists.
Per-domain white/blacklists: in domain profile page, under tab Whitelists and Blacklists.
Per-user white/blacklists: in user profile page, under tab Whitelists and Blacklists.

Screenshot attached below.

Manage whitelists and blacklists with SQL commands

Since iRedAPD-1.7.1, iRedAPD ships script tools/wblist_admin.py to help you manage white/blacklists. To get full usage message, please run this script without argument like this:

# cd /opt/iredapd/tools/
# python wblist_admin.py

Sample usages:

Add server-wide whitelisted or blacklisted senders:

# python wblist_admin.py --add --whitelist 202.96.134.133 john@example.com @test.com @.abc.com
# python wblist_admin.py --add --blacklist 202.96.134.133 john@example.com @test.com @.abc.com

Show server-wide whitelisted and blacklisted senders:

# python wblist_admin.py --list --whitelist
# python wblist_admin.py --list --blacklist

For per-domain or per-user white/blacklists, please add argument --account. like below:

# python wblist_admin.py --account mydomain.com --add --whitelist 202.96.134.133
# python wblist_admin.py --account user@mydomain.com --add --blacklist 202.96.134.133

# python wblist_admin.py --account mydomain.com --list --whitelist
# python wblist_admin.py --account user@mydomain.com --list --blacklist

For outbound messages, please add argument --outbound. like below:

# python wblist_admin.py --outbound --account mydomain.com --add --whitelist 202.96.134.133

Screenshot of iRedAdmin-Pro: