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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Richard Pijnenburg <ri...@pxs.nl> on 2005/08/30 15:19:39 UTC
Auto whitelisting
Dear list,
i'm not sure if i should put it here or on the amavisd mailing list.
I'm using Amavisd-new and spamassassin (3.0.4)
in one of the spam reports i saw the folowing:
4.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
maybe that i interperted it incorrect but shouldn't it be a negative score?
If so, could anyone help me to solve this?
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Re: Auto whitelisting
Posted by Ilan Aisic <ia...@gmail.com>.
It only means that SA have already seen the same sender and in its
previous message(s) it had a higher score (probably by 9 points).
The name auto-whitelist is misleading. It works both ways (white/black).
On 8/30/05, Richard Pijnenburg <ri...@pxs.nl> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> i'm not sure if i should put it here or on the amavisd mailing list.
>
> I'm using Amavisd-new and spamassassin (3.0.4)
> in one of the spam reports i saw the folowing:
>
> 4.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
>
> maybe that i interperted it incorrect but shouldn't it be a negative score?
> If so, could anyone help me to solve this?
> --
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Richard Pijnenburg
> PremiumXS B.V.
>
> Bouwerij 4
> 1185 XX
> Amstelveen
>
> T: 020 386 84 05
> F: 020 386 84 04
> D: 06 47 92 85 28
> E: richard@pxs.nl
>
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Re: Auto whitelisting
Posted by Richard Pijnenburg <ri...@pxs.nl>.
Verry much for your help boy's
it's alot clearer now.
Matt Kettler wrote:
> At 09:19 AM 8/30/2005, Richard Pijnenburg wrote:
>
>> i'm not sure if i should put it here or on the amavisd mailing list.
>>
>> I'm using Amavisd-new and spamassassin (3.0.4)
>> in one of the spam reports i saw the folowing:
>>
>> 4.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
>>
>> maybe that i interperted it incorrect but shouldn't it be a negative
>> score?
>> If so, could anyone help me to solve this?
>
>
>
> As someone else pointed out. It's not a whitelist, despite it's name.
> Really a better name would be:
> "Automatic History Tracking Score Averager with Black and White List
> Effects"
> But AHTSABWLE is a mouthful.
>
> Also, just because the AWL assigns a positive score, it doesn't always
> mean it's blacklisted the user, or thinks the message is spam. It may
> mean it thinks that the message was too strongly negative and better
> deserved a score closer to 0. You'd need to look at the final message
> score to tell the difference:
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay
>
>
>
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Re: Auto whitelisting
Posted by Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>.
At 09:19 AM 8/30/2005, Richard Pijnenburg wrote:
>i'm not sure if i should put it here or on the amavisd mailing list.
>
>I'm using Amavisd-new and spamassassin (3.0.4)
>in one of the spam reports i saw the folowing:
>
>4.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
>
>maybe that i interperted it incorrect but shouldn't it be a negative score?
>If so, could anyone help me to solve this?
As someone else pointed out. It's not a whitelist, despite it's name.
Really a better name would be:
"Automatic History Tracking Score Averager with Black and White List Effects"
But AHTSABWLE is a mouthful.
Also, just because the AWL assigns a positive score, it doesn't always mean
it's blacklisted the user, or thinks the message is spam. It may mean it
thinks that the message was too strongly negative and better deserved a
score closer to 0. You'd need to look at the final message score to tell
the difference:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay