> Hello,
>
> while I get currently several 1000 shop/meds/pill/gen spams a day and
> some are going throug my filters, I have to move them to my spamfolder
> manualy and feed them to "sa-learn --spam" but this does not work...
>
> ...because the Spamer From: is in the auto_whitelist.
>
> For me, this seems to be a bug, becuase sa-learn has to remove the From:
> from the auto_whitelist and then RESCAN this crap.
>
> the two last days I have uncompressed the spamarchives from the last 27
> weeks (from this year), used "formail" to extract all From: E-Mails
> unified them and used
>
> for FROM in ${LIST} ; do
> spamassassin --remove--addr-from-whitelist=${FROM}
> done
>
> which took over 52 hours for 487000 EMails. Hell, I have a super fast
> machine with 15000 RpM SCSI drives and 32 GByte of memory. This are 2.6
> E-Mails per second...
Do You have SQL based AWL? If not, it might be worth a consideration,
given your amounts of email.
With SQL
for FROM in ${LIST} ; do
mysql -u spamassassin -psecret spamassassin <<EOF
delete from awl where email='${FROM}' ;
EOF
done
Should be MUCH faster.
