Re: [vps-mail] auto whitelist

[Abigail Marshall <abigailrm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark, as I understand it, autowhitelisting is actually an averaging
system, as opposed to a "whitelist'. That is, if I get a lot of emai
from from mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which tends to score at around 3.0 --
and then an email comes in that hits SA scores at 8.0 -- SA will
reference the past numbers to even out the score -- so maybe this time
(doing the math with all the numbers), the score will end up at maybe
3.6.

So in a sense it can function as auto-blacklisting, too.  

See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist  for more info.

-Abigail

On 6/20/05, Mark A. Sharkey <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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