Jim Maul wrote:
>
> This will not work as all it does is assign -100 points to the
> message. This could cause an autolearn=ham on every message, even the
> spam that people post to the list!
Sorry Jim, but that's 100% pure fallacy.. The autolearner explicitly
ignores whitelist and blacklist scores.
To quote the manpage for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf while describing
"***bayes_auto_learn"*:
Note that certain tests are ignored when determining whether a
message should be trained upon:
- rules with tflags set to 'learn' (the Bayesian rules)
- rules with tflags set to 'userconf' (user white/black-listing rules, etc)
- rules with tflags set to 'noautolearn'
Therefore, whitelist_from_rcvd will have no impact whatsoever on the
autolearning of a given message. Period.
However, there is still the danger of a message that contains a few bits
of spam gets autolearned as ham because the rest of the post is very
ham-like. The only way to avoid this risk is to not run posts to this
list through spamassassin at all. (A generally better option, but one
that is not supported by all kinds of setups, especially simple milters)
