I think I have a general understanding of how the auto-whitelist process works, and please correct me if I'm wrong. As you get "acceptable" emails from addresses (and/or ip addresses?), that address improves its "score". Then, if that address sends a message that gets some bad SA scoring, the auto-whitelist reduces that bad score somewhat, depending on the past positive performance.
Do I have that right?
No, not quite. The AWL doesn't know the difference between "acceptable" and "unacceptable".. it only knows about the past score history of that sender.
Is there a thorough explanation of the process somewhere?
A detailed but simplified for the layman explanation is in the FAQ:
http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq06.001.htp
You probably also want to read the other FAQ entry on the AWL at the same time http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq06.002.htp
Also, is there a way for me to examine the current whitelist? I found tools/check_whitelist, but it just gives a list of data that means nothing to me. I haven't been able to find an explanation of it.
The data it outputs is the number of messages and the average score for that sender/ip combination. Once you understand what the AWL *really* does this should make considerably more sense.
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