Rob McMillin wrote:
> Erik van der Meulen wrote:
>
>> Dear all - I have upgraded SA from 2.01 to 2.11 recently and it seems to
>> have improved the scoring a bit.
>> On thing surprised me. My (Amanda) backup system sends me a daily mail
>> report which was tagged 'A_FROM_IN_AUTO_WLIST' in the version 2.01.
>> After the upgrade this tag no longer appears. The 'from' has not
>> changed, it is still 'backup'.
>>
>> Following a thread in this list before, I have added the following to my
>> user_prefs:
>>
>> header AVONDEL_BACKUP Subject =~ /AMANDA MAIL REPORT/i
>> describe AVONDEL_BACKUP From is My Backup System
>> score AVONDEL_BACKUP -100.0
>>
>> This seems to do the trick and gets my report through, but with the
>> following header:
>>
>> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-43.8 required=5.0
>> tests=FROM_MALFORMED,AVONDEL_BACKUP,LINE_OF_YELLING,AWL version=2.11
>>
>> I have not been able to find where the 'AWL' comes from. It seems to
>> score about 50 and I did not find a reference in the scores file.
>>
>> Any hints appreciated!
>>
> That would be the Auto WhiteList, which is a feature that causes mail
> which has successfully been sent to you to cause other mail to be so
> designated. In other words, if Alice sends Bob several non-spam
> messages, SpamAssassin assumes Alice is a non-spammer and will add a
> negative score to messages from her. Your Amanda cron job seems to be
> in this category.
>
I should have mentioned that the AWL also can work in reverse, IIRC...
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