A useful solution to white or blacklist a mailing lists is to check the envelope address, and not to try to guess the sender address from mail header. I'm not saying that the present mechanisms should be replaced or removed, it does have its place, but I'm asking for an API to allow the caller to pass envelope information to Mail::SpamAssassin and perhaps in time to put this information to good use, such as for white/blacklisting, and perhaps (again) in time to add some spam checks based on this (optional) information.
However, if a piece of software is sufficiently smart to be able to call SA directly, and is willing to undergo the work of adding new code to pass SA an additional bit of information, it could also implement a black/white list itself and not even call SA in the first place.
That's ultimately the right way. Don't try to shoehorn functionality onto SA that doesn't belong there in the first place.
SA is a message body processing filter and should be absolutely nothing more.. It shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel for things that are ultimately the job of tools like procmail in the first place. It should not try to do this for the very same reasons that SA no longer supports being used as a delivery agent.. other tools already can do this, they can do it better, faster, with less overhead, and less kludge.
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