I see.
Sorry, I thought a discussion for switching the default behavior would be right 
to be in dev list.
And what about a discussion about a new eval function comparing the matches of 
two regular expression.
If there would be functions eval:Equals(/regex1/,/regex2/) and 
eval:NOTEquals(/regex1/,/regex2/)  it would be easy to define rules like the 
one I mentioned in my last mail.

(create a rule scoring say with 0.8 points if there is only one recipients 
address and that one equals the senders address but they have different 'name 
parts'?
Like:
TO: "User Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FROM: "viargre offer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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.)


Harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sidney Markowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:07 AM
> To: Harald Binkle
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Re: shortcircuit for USER_IN_WHITELIST --> noautolearn??
> ==>learn!
>
> 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




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