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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