Alexis Manning wrote: > I use SA as an enduser. In my setup, messages in a certain score range > aren’t delivered to the mailbox but are held for a few hours so they can be > resubmitted, giving DNSBLs/DCC a chance to pick up on new spam. The idea > here is that very high scoring messages (for me >15) are dumped in a folder > that is never reviewed but intermediate scoring messages are put in a folder > that is reviewed, so a recheck allows the effort of manually checking mail > to be minimised. > > This works pretty well for me but the AWL sometimes gets in the way: the > second time messages are processed they are often scored higher because of > the DNSBL hits but the AWL averaging causes lots of points to be taken off! > > Is there any way of either undoing the effect of AWL after the message is > first processed and I decide it needs to be rescanned later, or a > command-line option to stop AWL being applied the second time round? > > No, there is no command line option at all.
But you can use the command-line to force an alternate user_prefs file, and have that file contain a "use_auto_whitelist 0". Assuming you're using the "spamassassin" command line script for your second scan, the -p option will over-ride the user_prefs file with any other file you specify.
