[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry if this has been asked ad-nauseum, but by default, the
> Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL is enabled. 
> 
> From what I've been able to find on this topic, AWL is intended to be
> a user or system maintained database of whitelisted "from" addresses. 
> 
> We did nothing to create or populate this database, yet we see AWL
> scoring negative points into SA, supposedly because the AWL rule was
> matched.  
> 
> Where would this database or AWL be located that is being used for
> the scoring?  Can I just turn AWL off by commenting the plugin out of
> v310.pre?  

You can turn it off by commenting that line, but first, make sure you
understand what it does.  It is not a manually created whitelist.  It
is not even a whitelist in the normal sense of the term.  It is a
"score averager".  See the wiki for full details:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist

-- 
Bowie

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