Vicki Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excuse me... refuse? REFUSE? Refuse _point blank_??? What are you on ?!
Mr. Earshaw likes to berate people for not posting versions numbers of software. I suggest you don't take it personally. > It's SpamAssassin that's doing the AWL check, not sendmail, not > FreeBSD, not procmail. It's SpamAssassin that's assigning an x-rated > piece of spam a score of -6.3, apparently because the From header was > spoofed to contain MY email address. The AWL feature uses the past to predict the future. In the past, no message having a From address with your username has ever been spam. Thus, a strong case can be made that mail with your address will not be spam. If this assumption is wrong (and, apparently, it is), then you need to do something about it. I suggest that you remove your address from the auto whitelist, and let it start averaging again using current E-mail. Make sure that SA sees the X-rated message you received, so that it can assign a more correct AWL weighting. However, if you are always going to be receiving mail from yourself (why?), then the auto whitelist feature may do you a disservice. Some experimentation is in order; perhaps you will need to turn it off. Also, since you are running an older version of SA, you might consider upgrading to a later version (2.55 or later) which has Bayesian classification as one of the new tools for detecting spam. This classifier may help weight spammy messages more, irrespective of who it appears to be from. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fuzzy Fox) || "Good judgment comes from experience. sometimes known as David DeSimone || Experience comes from bad judgment." ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
