On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:31:34PM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > whitelisted mails should not be auto learned. > > That is just what Simon said and SA does.
Oh... sorry. He said S> Please check the docs, Bayes auto_learn does not take notice of S> whitelisting: (from man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf) and I read that "does not take notice of" as "ignores", or "doesn't take into account whether it is whitelisted or not". And 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' (version 2.55) says nothing at all about Bayes. Your webpage http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html says "Note that certain tests are ignored when determining whether a message should be trained upon: - auto-whitelist (AWL) - rules with tflags set to 'learn' (the Bayesian rules) - rules with tflags set to 'userconf' (user white/black-listing rules, etc)" This seemed to indicate that only *AUTO*-whitelisting is ignored, and not explicitely whitelisted addresses with 'whitelist_from'. Moreover, the entry of whitelist_from states: "Used to specify addresses which send mail that is often tagged (incorrectly) as spam" While its documentation doesn't mention Bayes at all, the "(incorrectly)" seemed to indicate that SA considers mail that passed through because it is whitelisted is to be considered as ham (and therefore passed to the Bayesian filter update). Finally, the mention above of "tflags set to 'userconf' (user white/black-listing rules, etc)" was read by me as 'white/black-list rules that appear in the users ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs files as a rule, or that are otherwise user specific. Now I understand the in fact you ar meaning: "USER_IS_IN_WHITELIST/USER_IS_IN_BLACKLIST" where it *is* clear that 'user' reference the to From: or To: line rather than a local users (rule). Thanks for clarifying this. Hopefully my feedback can help to improve the documentation at this point though: it is easy to assume that white listed mail is still classified / auto-learned. I'd suggest an explicit mention under 'whitelist_from' et al that matched mails will not be auto-learned. -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- 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
