Richard Ozer wrote: > I have a particular address whitelisted via > "spamassassin [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > It works for a while, but then comes back reported as spam after a > week or two.
This is "normal" due to the way the AWL works. > I recieve mail from this user, tagged with AWL, as well as BAYES40. > However there are a couple of spammy rules fired that seem to > overwhelm the negative scores from AWL and BAYES40. Feed the message to sa-learn as ham. Test it again; it should now show up with BAYES_00. Do this often enough, and mail from this person should always show up as BAYES_00. Unfortunately this isn't always enough to get some people's mail through. :( If someone's mail is hitting high-scoring rules, you can also add entries in your user_prefs or global config to drop the score on those rules. I've had to do that once or twice. > I thought AWL assigns a score of -100; or will "blacklist" entries > continue to build up until the whitelist score is negated? Not exactly. Your initial call to add the address to your AWL set the AWL score to -100... but the AWL is a long-term score averager, and so the AWL's effect will reduce over time. The first message that came in from this person after you did --add-addr-to-whitelist would have had ~ -50 for the AWL score (assuming the message scored close to 0 without). I'm not certain on the exact change, but the next message would see somewhere between -25 and -33. Over time, the AWL adjustment will tend towards 0, only showing up on mails that are either much more spammy or much less spammy that "usual" for that person. If this is someone that regularly sends you spammy mail, feed their mail to Bayes as ham, and add a whitelist_from_rcvd entry for them. (Only use whitelist_from if they regularly send email from a wide variety of places.) > I thought I understood whitelisting until this situation arose... "Regular" whitelisting uses whitelist_from and whitelist_from_rcvd in either your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file or your main SA config files (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf). They assign static negative scores that don't change the way the AWL scores do. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist for more detailed information on the AWL. -kgd -- Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has been!
