Chris Petersen wrote:
> > The whitelist part is a misnomer.  It's an automatic score adjuster
> > (white/black-list if you want).
> 
> I realize this.  Just figure that the name should be more informative.

It evolved into what it is today from being an autowhitelister
previously and the same option and name stuck.

> Better yet, shouldn't it be somehow tied to the bayes DB?  These
> messages are correctly scoring "0% chance of spam" from Bayes, so I'd
> think that the proper thing for the AWL to do would be to start
> relearning the addresses as "good" (or better yet, to ignore the address
> completely, since it comes in both as spam and as legit messages).

Better yet, don't use it at all.  Any time that you tag based on the
header from of the message you are opening yourself to being spoofed.
It is off by default which is a good thing.  But some people do like
it regardless of its faults.  I can't recommend it.

Bob


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