The Doctor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:11:25PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > >> The Doctor wrote: >> >>> All right why is AWL going to score 30+ when it was told to go to -1000 >>> >>> as in >>> >>> score AWL -1000 >>> >> You can't assign static scores to the AWL, this goes against the >> definition of what it is. It's score is, by design, dynamic on a >> per-message basis. Otherwise it would essentially be adding -1000 to >> more-or-less all of your mail, spam or not. The AWL doesn't decide what >> to whitelist, it merely decides what score to give based on past >> history. If anyone sends you two emails, the second one will always >> match the AWL. However, that score might be negative or positive. >> >> Read up on what the AWL really is, and how it really works: >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist >> >> >> > > All right then this is really odd!!! > > The person has always sent me mail from the intranet no problem. > > I just updated the perl to 5.10.0 threading > and then I am like how did AWL change? > Well, was the message really low scoring, despite the +30 AWL score?
If a sender has an average of -10, and suddenly they send one that scores -70, the AWL will add +30, and this is not an indication the AWL thinks he's a spammer. This could easily happen if you've driven the score of a rule really low. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay
