On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 05:43, J. Davis wrote:
> As a point-of-interest related to this, how does one remove an
> address from the auto whitelist database (DBM)?
The spamassassin man page says:
-W Add all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail
message read from STDIN, to the automatic whitelist.
-R Remove all email addresses, in the headers and body of the mail
message read from STDIN, from the automatic whitelist.
> Also, I'm not completely sure what the benefit of this database is.
> Why not just treat every message the same and run it through the GA?
Nothing is perfect, and even if SpamAssassin's rules were perfect your
friends and contacts might not be and they might send you what most
people would consider to be spam. The non-automatic whitelist lets you
specify people and mailing lists that you know you want to see mail
from. The auto-whitelist makes it even easier: If you receive non-spam
from someone enough times then the occasional email from them that would
otherwise be filtered as spam is allowed through, with no effort on your
part to enter names in a list. This is ideal for an ISP who is running
SpamAssassin for users who may not be adept at configuring anything.
By the way, 'GA' stands for Genetic Algorithm, referring to the program
that Justin uses to compute the scores for the rules by adjusting them
to work well on his corpus of spam and non-spam mail. It does not refer
to SpamAssassin's rule filter. The rules are run through the GA and the
scores are checked in to the CVS. Your email messages are run through
the rules.
-- sidney
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