mouss wrote: > [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? > > > after some "experience", I just disabled awl. I have tried to read how > it works, and wasn't convinced. > I couldn't find any theoritical support for the algorithm.
The theory is pretty simple. The only problem I've seen is that the "small on-disk database" can get pretty big on busy accounts (mine is currently about 9MB). My advice is to leave it on and watch what it does. Don't be concerned if it gives small negative scores to some spam messages and small positive scores to non-spam. The only time you really need to worry about it is if the AWL score causes a ham message to be marked as spam or a spam message to be marked as ham. If, like mouss, you decide you don't like what it's doing, turn it off. Otherwise, just let it run. It seems to do a good job for me. -- Bowie
