Harald Binkle wrote, On 7/5/08 6:30 PM:
Hi, ok, these are good reasons, I see. But I wrote a script setting all recipients of outgoing mails on the whitelist. So everyone I send a message to will be on the whitelist. Meanwhile nearly all people I have contact to are on my whitelist so there are almost no mails I receive which will be automatically learned as ham.
Autolearn is a way of doing the best that you can with no work, but you are seeing some of its failings. There is really no substitute for a manual learning procedure where you find a way to make it easy to specify whether email is really typical ham or spam and send it to the learner, avoiding sending atypical ham that contains words that you would not want to learn as ham. I could get into a discussion about ideas on how to do that without having to classify all your mail by hand, which of course is what you use SpamAssassin to avoid in the first place, but that's the kind of discussion that the SpamAssassin users mailing list is for.
There are a lot of spam mails with that structure trying to get through because many people have their own domain on the whitelist. I tried to set this up as rule but with no luck. I fear it is not possible to do with an regular expression.
The proper way to do it is to use whitelist_from_rcvd instead of whitelist_from and put in a rule for each sending mail server that the person uses. Again, this is a topic for the sa-users mailing list rather than the dev list.
-- sidney
