I'm very confused now. How does it determine which message to use for the 'old score' ? if I wanted to assign a negative number to those addresses that are whitelisted in order to let more of them through, what am I supposed to use if not AWL ? thanks,
On 31 May 2007 at 11:56, Craig Carriere wrote: > > Perhaps I am misinterpreting what you are asking, but AWL is not a > whitelist that you can assign a set score to it is a weighting > function. By assigning a factor of 0.7 to AWL you asked it to bias its > setting to basically 70% of the difference between the old score for > that message and the new score for mail of this type. > > At its default setting of 0.5 if you receive a mail message that is > scored at 2 and another comes in at 4, AWL will assign a score of -1 > to the message to bring it to a total of 3. This will vary with each > message and I see no way or value in have this function defined at a > set number. > > I wish they would change the name of this thing to something more > descriptive. > > .rp wrote: > in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf there is an entry > auto_whitelist_factor 0.7 > > Yet in the scoring , the listing is: > *header * -0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list > > where did the -0.1 come from? how can i change it to -1.0 ? > > thanks.
