Re: [SAtalk] AWL settings in user_prefs

2002-11-19 Thread Matt Kettler
Yes, I know about that issue with a global AWL. I've even authored some of the posts discussing how horribly the AWL performs when there's a global database. So yes, I understand how the AWL smears your all_spam_to scores all over the place and causes problems. I understand this and the mechani

Re: [SAtalk] AWL settings in user_prefs

2002-11-18 Thread Jan Schreckenbach
Matt, did you ever deploy SA system-wide and have all_spam_to for some user set? In the case where you scan a mail once before any delivering, SPAM comes through if only one receiver is in all_spam_to and the spammers address goes into your central AWL file with a very low score. The next SPAM fro

Re: [SAtalk] AWL settings in user_prefs

2002-11-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Ok, I don't know the answer to your question, but I'm wondering why you're even asking it. By default if you have different user_prefs files, then you don't have a global AWL database. The global AWL case only happens if SA is always run as one user, such as root when run from a milter. In whi

[SAtalk] AWL settings in user_prefs

2002-11-17 Thread Jan Schreckenbach
Hi, what is the reason for auto_whitelist_path being privileged? I want to overwrite the setting from the global local.cf file in the user_prefs file. Otherwise whitelist_to will lower scores for SPAM and this will "poison" my global AWL. cu, Jan ---