Matt Kettler wrote:
Well, first off -W and -R only apply to the auto-whitelist as it says. So unless you use SpamAssassin with the -a option all the time, using these commands does NOTHING (well, nothing that matters).Thanks.
These commands are really intended more as a way of "fixing" problems with your AWL database, and aren't intended to be used as a way of regularly adding people to your blacklist.
The suggested method for hand-blacklisting or whitelisting is to add a whitelist_to, whitelist_from, whitelist_from_rcvd or blacklist_from rule to your local.cf or user_prefs for SpamAssassin.
And yes, -R, -W and --add-to-blacklist will extract ALL email addresses in the message including all of the following headers and the body of the email itself:
To, From, Cc, Reply-To, Sender, Errors-To, Mail-Followup-To
And will adjust the AWL appropriately for ALL of those addresses, including your address. See sub find_all_addrs_in_mail in SpamAssassin.pm for more explicit details.
I did some more playing and found out this:
formail -czX From: | spamassassin -W
Will process only that one line. Very nice.
As far as permanently listing someone in the local.cf files...
So few addresses have any really long history as far as spammers go, it might be reasonable to use the AWL Blacklisting since that would hold them off for at least 3-8 emails...
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