I use the New Mail filtering rules/applied when the mailbox is opened, but I can't seem to get everything to work correctly. I'm not sure if it's me or the app (or both).

Let's start with the blacklist & whitelist.

If someone could answer the following questions, I would appreciate it.

The documentation says that there is a global whitelist which is automatically applied to incoming mail before it is filtered by my rules. I have any email addresses to which I send mail automatically added to this list. However, it seems that in order to actually enforce the list, my mail filtering rules must do it by exiting the filter if the whitelist attribute is set for the incoming mail. Is my understanding correct?
There is no "global blacklist". as far as I can tell. But both a whitelist & a blacklist are referenced in the Tools/Spam & Content Control/Content Control/Definitions/Just Blacklist & Whitelist/Exceptions dialog box. These are supposedly PMAIL distribution lists. Are they automatically checked by PMAIL or do they have to be "List Scanned" in my incoming mail filter to be enforced.

Thanks for any help.