[vps-mail] auto whitelist

["Mark A. Sharkey" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to understand SpamAssassin's autowhitelisting better.  I have 
a client who was sent an email from someone who was autowhitelisted. 
However, the message still got tagged as spam.  When I look in his 
personal .spamassassin directory, I see a email addresses 
autowhitelisted from within his user_prefs file; but, I also binary 
files called "auto-whitelist and auto-whitelist.db".

My concern, is that if an email address is auto-whitelisted, shouldn't 
there be no way for it to be tagged as spam?  From the headers, it 
appears that it was actually given a *higher* score from being 
auto-whitelisted:


Content analysis details:   (4.7 points, 4.0 required)
>
>  pts rule name              description
> ---- ----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------
>  1.0 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY       BODY: Multipart message mostly text/html MIME
>  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
>  0.0 HTML_90_100            BODY: Message is 90% to 100% HTML
> -2.0 BAYES_20               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20%
>                             [score: 0.1740]
>  1.2 MISSING_SUBJECT        Missing Subject: header
>  4.3 AWL                    AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
>
>


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Mark A. Sharkey
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