I am having trouble with the standard "White List" & "BlackList" configuration in the SpamAssassin user preferences file.
The "Manual White List" user guide at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualWhitelist states "Adding a user to your whitelist gives them a -100 score, which has the effect of always marking their mail as non-spam". I have found that when I add manually a user to the whitelist (in the SpamAssassin user preferences file) I get inconsistent results: The first example: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-100.0 X-Spam-Score: -999 X-Spam-Bar: --------------------------------------------------- The second example (for the same address): X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 X-Spam-Score: 14 X-Spam-Bar: + X-Spam-Flag: NO I have also found that when I manually a user to the blacklist (in the SpamAssassin user preferences file) I get the following result: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-100.0 X-Spam-Score: -999 X-Spam-Bar: --------------------------------------------------- My Questions: (i) Is there an explanation for what I have observed above in relation to the manual whitelist entries (in the SpamAssassin user preferences file)? (ii) Why would the manual blacklist entry above (in the SpamAssassin user preferences file) give the same result as a manual whitelist entry (in the SpamAssassin user preferences file)? (iii) The administrator of our server has indicated that mail matching the whitelist entries and the blacklist entries (in the SpamAssassin user preferences file) will always be processed/assessed by SpamAssassin as spam/not spam. Is this the case? If so, what is the purpose of the whitelist and the blacklist entries in the SpamAssassin user preferences file? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Spam-Assassin-White-List-tp22589650p22589650.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
