Tim Alberts wrote:
Thank you for responding Rubin. I disable the AWL with main
spamassassin local.cf config file and the line 'auto_learn 0' correct?
Not quite. If you run "spamassassin --lint" with that directive in
place, you should get an error reported.
Add "use_auto_whitelist 0" to local.cf instead. Make sure to restart
spamd if you're using it.
However I'm not sure how to determine why they were added in the first
place. I'm looking through the awl docs, and I think it would be easier
(and much quicker with less downtime) to just remove the address from
the awl. I don't see how to do this though, can it be done, and if so,
how?
From man spamassassin-run:
-R, --remove-from-whitelist Remove all addresses found in mail from
persistent address list
Personally, I'm baffled by all the trouble people seem to have with the
AWL; the only issue I've run into is users pushing their mail quota due
to large AWL files caused by stale one-hit-wonder entries. (Which I
solved by adapting a utility from the SA distribution to trim out said
stale entries.)
(I've been finding the SA man page(s) much more difficult to find
certain information from in recent versions; I understand the divisions
but they're not all that easy to find. The major "standard" plugins
should probably have mention in the "see also" section of
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf's man page - which is where *everything* used
to be documented.)
-kgd
