Virtual user config and auto-whitelist (again)

[Bart Schaefer <ba...@gmail.com>]

A while ago, I asked about updating the AWL when using spamd
--virtual-config-dir.  The discussion got sidetracked onto the topic
of the obsolete -a option and the AWL plugin, and consequently my
original question never got a satisfactory answer.  Here it is again:

On 4/26/06, Bart Schaefer <ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently switched from running spamd on our mail server machine,
> where all users have direct access to their SA config in their home
> directory, to running spamd on a second machine and using
> --virtual-config-dir for user configuration.  (SA 3.1.1)
>
> The only problem this has posed is that there's no convenient way for
> users to modify entries in the auto-whitelist file.  Some spam (mostly
> mortgage offers with obfuscated text) that came in before bayes was
> retrained got scored low, and consequently the AWL scores are pulling
> the total score for new spam from the same source back down below the
> 5.0 threshold in spite of it hitting BAYES_90 and above.  I've
> resorted to deleting the auto-whitelist files from the virtual config
> dir when someone notices this effect, but that's hardly a scalable
> solution.
>
> Is there another approach I don't know about?