Re: Command line option to disable AWL?

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Matt Kettler writes:
> 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.

for what it's worth, in 3.2.0 you can also use a new "--cf" switch:

    spamassassin --cf "use_auto_whitelist 0" ...

--j.

Re: Command line option to disable AWL?

[Theo Van Dinter <fe...@apache.org>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:45:31PM -0000, Alexis Manning wrote:
> Do you know if that option will be supported by spamc as well?  If so 
> I'll probably hang fire until 3.2.0 is released.

spamd doesn't take configuration from spamc, so no.

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Re: Command line option to disable AWL?

[Alexis Manning <al...@googlemail.com>]

jm@jmason.org says...
> Matt Kettler writes:
> > 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.
> 
> for what it's worth, in 3.2.0 you can also use a new "--cf" switch:
> 
>     spamassassin --cf "use_auto_whitelist 0" ...

Do you know if that option will be supported by spamc as well?  If so 
I'll probably hang fire until 3.2.0 is released.

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