I've just been toying with the new auto-whitelist and was convinced it wasn't
working for a while because the spam reporting is a bit confusing. Case in
point, this report from a deliberately spammy email I sent myself:

X-Spam-Report:   6.62416666666667 hits, 5 required;
  *  1.0 -- Subject contains lots of white space
  *  0.5 -- Subject has an exclamation mark
  *  1.0 -- BODY: Contains a tollfree number
  *  1.4 -- BODY: One hundred percent guaranteed
  *  3.5 -- BODY: Contains word 'AMAZING'
  *  1.8 -- From and To the same address
  *  1.5 -- Subject contains a unique ID number

There's no indication here that the AWL was involved in the scoring, but if you
add up the listed scores, you get a total of 10.7, and the score ended up at
6.6 - so the whitelist is working fine. I think this is a much better system
than the previous one.

I'd love to see something like this at the end of the spam report to avoid
confusion:
 * -4.1 -- Whitelist: Correction based on sender's history

While I'm at it, it looks like either the score in the spam report or the
correction applied by the AWL would benefit from rounding...

--
michael moncur   mgm at starlingtech.com   http://www.starlingtech.com/
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
                -- G. K. Chesterton


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