Henry Kwan wrote: > Hi, > > Running SA 3.17 on a CentOS 4.4 install with sendmail. Am getting some spams > that score negative AWL and was wondering why this was. Rule 1) just because the AWL scores negative, does NOT mean the AWL thinks it is nonspam. The AWL is fundamentally a score averager, and the only way for it to always assign positive scores to spam is if your pre-awl scores are constantly decreasing. .that's a BAD thing.
In this case, the past average for the sender was approximately 7.7 (spam), this message came in at 11.5 (also spam), so the AWL split the difference and took off 1.9 points to make it 9.6 (still spam). That's 100% normal. See also: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist
