From: Linda Walsh <sa-u...@tlinx.org> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:48:43 -0700 Bowie Bailey wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: >> >> I got a really poorly scored piece of spam -- one thing that stood out >> as weird was report claimed the sender was in my AWL. > > Any sender who has sent mail to you previously will be in your AWL. > This is probably the most misunderstood component of SA. Read the wiki. > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist ---- At face value, this seems very counter productive. You still aren't understanding the wiki or the AWL scoring or what AWL is trying to do.
If I get spam from 1000 senders, they all end up in my AWL??? yes. every email+ip address pair that sends you email winds up in your AWL with an average score for that pair. This is ok. WTF? AWL should only be added to by emails judged to be 'ham' via the feed back mechanisms --, spammers shouldn't get bonuses for being repeat senders... You are getting too attached to the 'whitelist' part of the name. Pretend AWL stands for average weighting list. How do I delete spammer addresses from my 'auto-white-list'? (That's just insane..whitelisting spammers?!?!) AWL isn't whitelisting spammers. It is pushing the score to the average for that sender. The sender can have a high average or a low average. If the previous email from a particular sender was FP or FN then AWL will have an incorrect average and will wind up doing or trying to do the wrong thing with subsequent email for that sender. You can remove addresses using spamassassin --remove-from-whitelist -jeff
