On 4/5/09, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: > Hi, sorry for the OT, but I'd like to know other amavisd user experience > about the > autowhitelist. > > Currently it seems to become uneffective and unreliable, or even harmful. > In fact many spammers now send you spam using your own (or your domain) name > in "From "field, i.e. like if an email is sent by yourself. This often > gives for the AWL > a negative score of several points...(considering that the SPAM > threshold is often around a score of 5).
The first two octets of the senders IP address are also recorded, so AWL considers one sender address from two different /16 networks two different records. > Of course it's also true this one: > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay > > but I was wondering whether according to *current* users experience it > is better to disable > the AWL test. Maybe the loading of the AWL plugin in amavisd can be made > conditional > in amavisd.conf? > > Thanks. > Bye > Giuseppe. Personally, I turn it off. You can either turn it off in local.cf - 'use_auto_whitelist 0' (or) disable the plugin in v310.pre (don't do both - or you may get a --lint error). -- Gary V ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
