On 27-May-2009, at 13:48, Linda Walsh wrote:
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
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At face value, this seems very counter productive.
At face value, you still haven't read the docs, have you?
If I get spam from 1000 senders, they all end up in my
AWL???
Yep.
WTF?
Read the docs.
AWL should only be added to by emails judged to be 'ham' via
No, you are confused. This is common, lots of people are confused
about this. This is why many people think the name needs to be changed
to "Averaged Weight List" or something similar.
the feed back mechanisms --, spammers shouldn't get bonuses for
being repeat senders...
that's not how the AWL works. In fact, spammers get MORE points for
being repeat senders.
How do I delete spammer addresses from my 'auto-white-list'?
That's a very bad idead.
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