Differences between the 3 "Welcome"-lists

[ChrisTG74]

AFAIC there are several places where whitelist-entries can be made:

1)



2)



3)




So, now my question is what is the difference between these three options, especially for 1) and 2) I have no idea what's the difference how there are used internally.
As far as I understood is 3) user-based. so the entries there are only taken in the recipient matches, right?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

So, now my question is what is the difference between these three options, especially for 1) and 2) I have no idea what's the difference how there are used internally.
As far as I understood is 3) user-based. so the entries there are only taken in the recipient matches, right?

We have a section in our reference documentation for that because the question came up quite a few times :
https://pmg.proxmox.com/pmg-docs/pmg-admin-guide.html#pmgconfig_welcomelist_overview

This should explain most things I hope

 

[ChrisTG74]

@Stoiko Ivanov thanks again,
So TL;DR is, that if I want to add an email-address to a global whitelist w/o any additional rules, I would take the "Welcomelist" located at the "Mail Proxy" settings, is that correct?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

So TL;DR is, that if I want to add an email-address to a global whitelist w/o any additional rules, I would take the "Welcomelist" located at the "Mail Proxy" settings, is that correct?

You need to take into account the rules and their priorities as well (e.g. in the default rule-set the Blocklist rule has a higher priority than the Welcomelist rule)

The docs try to explain this with:

The rule-based welcome- and blocklists are predefined rules.

but - put shortly - it should work as you describe it - if you get surprised by the results - check your rules (and the logs which log which rule caused a particular action)