Sounds like it is misleading.
Thanks for the clarification.

madmac

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Busbee" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Clarification.


I don't think that setting does what you think it does.  It is a horible
name for a setting that automatically averages scores from particular
email addresses.  It has NOTHING to do with whitelists.

What is does is automatically adjusts the score up or down to match a
running average for an emails (from address) score.

From the manual link bellow:

Another feature of spamassassin is "auto-whitelist". But the name is a
misnomer. The AutoWhitelist  is designed as an automatic score averaging
system, and is just as likely to penalize or blacklist an address as it is
to benefit or whitelist it. If you want to whitelist, you should use the
directions above.


See response above; Postmaster wrote:
It depends what you want to to archive.

You can either edit ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs or global
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and add

whitelist_from or
blacklist_from

Have a look at
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualWhitelist


Regards
Alex



On 21/04/2010 21:10, madmac wrote:
there is not much in the local.cf,

ok_locales all
skip_rbl_checks 0
required_score 3.7
report_safe 0
rewrite_header Subject ***Possible-SPAM***
use_pyzor 1
use_auto_whitelist 1
use_bayes 1
use_bayes_rules 1
bayes_auto_learn 1
So does spammassasin add the use_auto_whitelist , to a different
specific file ? ie where is the generated whitelist
Thanks

    *From:* Postmaster <mailto:[email protected]>
    *To:* [email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>
    *Cc:* madmac <mailto:[email protected]>
    *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:59 PM
    *Subject:* Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Clarification.


          Whitelist a Sender or Domain in SpamAssassin

    To whitelist individual addresses or domains in SpamAssassin:

        * Open //etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf/ in your favorite
          editor for system-wide whitelisting.
              o To whitelist only for yourself, open
                /~/.spamassassin/user_prefs/.
        * Append "whitelist_from_rcvd {address or domain you want to
          whitelist preceded by "*@"} {domain name which must be
          present in the Received: headers}".
              o To whitelist all About newsletters, for example, type
                "whitelist_from_rcvd *[email protected] about.com".

    The second parameter of /whitelist_from_rcvd/, a domain name which
    must be present in the /Received:/ header lines, is some
    prevention against spammers easily getting past SpamAssassin by
    using an email address at a commonly whitelisted domain.


    Regards
    Alex

    On 21/04/2010 18:42, madmac wrote:
    Thanks eric.

    another dumb question for all

    with spamassassin set to :
    use_auto_whitelist = 1

    where is the " whitelist " stored ?


    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Shubert" <[email protected]>
    To: <[email protected]>
    Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:14 AM
    Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: Clarification.


    madmac wrote:
    Can anyone help me : what does this command do
    skip_rbl_checks 1
     do i set it to skip_rbl_checks 0
    To forece rbl check?
     Thanks

    1 is true
    0 is false

    skip_rbl_checks = 1
    skips them.

    skip_rbl_checks = 0
    activates them.

    --
    -Eric 'shubes'


    
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