hi, i was having great trouble getting whitelist_from to work correctly. then i discovered what the problem was: i was using the -S option to improve performance. doing so, however, also seems to completely disable the whitelist feature. this is because, apparently, the whitelist weighting is only added at the *end* of the scoring process (see example below).
is this really the desired behavior? in light of this, would it not perhaps be better to have spamassassin always add the whitelist score *first* in the scoring process? if so, it probably would also be wise to have -S stop on a configurable minimum threshold as well (e.g., -100); otherwise, -S will be of no benefit to whitelisted messages (i.e., such messages will be let through but will always undergo full content analysis, which isn't needed since they are whitelisted). cheers! doug example: # cat spam_msg.txt | spamassassin -t -L -D -S SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (5.6 hits, 5 required) SPAM: Hit! (4.3 points) Reply-To: is empty SPAM: Hit! (1.3 points) Received via SMTPD32 server (SMTPD32-n.n) SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results --------------------- the message is flagged as spam. now, drop the -S option: SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (-84.1 hits, 5 required) SPAM: Hit! (4.3 points) Reply-To: is empty SPAM: Hit! (1.3 points) Received via SMTPD32 server (SMTPD32-n.n) SPAM: Hit! (1.0 point) From: ends in numbers SPAM: Hit! (0.5 points) Subject has an exclamation mark SPAM: Hit! (1.5 points) BODY: Asks you to click below SPAM: Hit! (0.2 points) BODY: No such thing as a free lunch (1) SPAM: Hit! (2.3 points) BODY: List removal information SPAM: Hit! (1.6 points) BODY: Mentions Spam Law "UCE-Mail Act" SPAM: Hit! (1.0 point) BODY: No such thing as a free lunch (3) SPAM: Hit! (0.9 points) BODY: Mentions Spam law "H.R. 3113" SPAM: Hit! (1.3 points) URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email address SPAM: Hit! (-100.0 points) From: address is in the user's white-list SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results --------------------- the message is correctly whitelisted and allowed through. just for the record, i am running spamassassin v2.20 on redhat 7.2. [EOF] _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
