On a related issue, I just upgraded to 2.43 primarily because of the earlier AWL problems.
My question is, how long will it take for the erroneous AWL entries to work their way out of my AWL db? Would I be better off deleting the AWL db and letting it start over? Thanks, Ollie On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:22:55PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > What version of SA are we talking about? > > if it's 2.43, the AWL tracks both the from address AND the orginating IP. > it would be highly unlikely that a spammer could forge such a thing and > drive their score up. > > Can you provide some more detail about which SA you are running? there's > major changes from 2.3.x to 2.4.0 and more in 2.4.2 and still more for > 2.4.3. > > I wouldn't trust the AWL in 2.4.2 any further than I could throw a server > room. > > > At 10:55 AM 10/18/2002 -0400, Rose, Bobby wrote: > >Should SA have a minimum message size check to counter an AWL score. I > >had someone sending test messages, but because their AWL score was 23.5 > >it was tagged as spam. I'm still scratching my head on how they got > >such a high AWL score. > > > >My thought on that matter is that if a spammer was to send to their > >external account using the user's email address as the return address > >and that system forwards the message on, then the system here will > >consider the message as SPAM under their address. Does this sound > >plausible? > > > >-=B > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk -- |---------------------------| | Ollie Acheson | | Morristown, NJ | |---------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Access Your PC Securely with GoToMyPC. Try Free Now https://www.gotomypc.com/s/OSND/DD _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
