I've been happily using SpamAssassin with MIMEDefang for nearly a year now. I have a question about controlling and querying the whitelist.
The per-user automatic whitelist is enabled and clearly doing "something" (because it's growing in size) but I can't find much documentation about it. Is there any way to query the email addresses stored in the AWL? For example, periodically I wouldn't mind going through the AWL and promoting addresses to the actual whitelist for each user (and then mark all the others as permanently blacklisted) just to "help" the AWL on its way. Also, as I use MIMEDefang, this would allow me to implement the blacklist earlier without actually calling spamc as I could bounce the email immediately following the SMTP FROM clause. Looking through the docs - I can't see any way of querying the addresses and scores from the AWL... did I miss something? Ultimately, what I'm planning on doing, either in my MIMEDefang filter or by parsing the sendmail logs every now and then, is to update user's whitelists such that any email address emailed *by* a user are automatically added to their personal whitelist in user_prefs. Additionally, because most of my users use Outlook, I'd periodically synchronise Outlook address books with the server. MIMEDefang is configured to bounce email above a certain threshold: giving it the users' address books allows this bounce threshold to be very low (e.g. 3-5) as MIMEDefang could use a higher bounce threshold (e.g. 10) for recognised email addresses - which would hopefully still catch SPAM with a forged from address (though from what I can see it's relatively rare to get SPAM from a forged address that you actually know). Is this: a) Sensible (is it a good idea to have a huge number of email addresses in user_prefs?) b) Has anyone configured SpamAssassin (via MIMEDefang or any other milter) to work this before? I've googled around and couldn't see anything. I'm invoking SpamAssassin via spamc running version 3.2.5 on Fedora 9 but I don't expect that's relevant here. Thanks in advance for any advice/tips David
