Re: How much does whitelist_from really do?
At 11:59 AM 12/14/2004, Peter Guhl wrote: We have a really huge whitelist - all inserted in user_prefs using whitelist_from. But I constantly get told that mails from people at this list got flagged as spam. That makes me wonder... do I have to do something specific to make sure sa honors whitelist_from? Does it only shift the score or bypass scanning? It only shifts the score, but by -100, so that's a pretty hefty shift. Unless the message has a GTUBE in it, it should be OK. You should see the rule USER_IN_WHITELIST show up for matching emails. SA has no bypass support. If you want to bypass scanning, do that in your tool that calls SA in the first place, you'll save more CPU this way than if SA did it. Also make sure SA understands your configfiles... run spamassassin --lint to check for syntax errors.. one bad error can cause a lot of your config file to get skipped, thus disabling your whitelists.
Re: How much does whitelist_from really do?
Peter Guhl wrote: We have a really huge whitelist - all inserted in user_prefs using whitelist_from. But I constantly get told that mails from people at this list got flagged as spam. That makes me wonder... do I have to do something specific to make sure sa honors whitelist_from? Does it only shift the score or bypass scanning? It only shifts the scores. If you want to bypass scanning entirely -- which you really should do if you're using Bayes auto-learning or AWL -- you need to do that using whatever system you have to call SpamAssassin (procmail, mailscanner, mimedefang, etc.) -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications www.speed.net
RE: How much does whitelist_from really do?
Whitelist_from isn't going to work for lists such as this (which is what I think he's trying to do); the from addresses are the individual senders. Whitelist_to is what's needed to whitelist lists. -Original Message- From: Bret Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How much does whitelist_from really do? We have a really huge whitelist - all inserted in user_prefs using whitelist_from. But I constantly get told that mails from people at this list got flagged as spam. That makes me wonder... do I have to do something specific to make sure sa honors whitelist_from? Does it only shift the score or bypass scanning? Unless you've changed it, whitelist_from has a score of -100, which it would be very hard to overrun even with the worst spam. So if messages are really getting through that match a whitelist_from entry then my thinking would be either the user_prefs are not being used or you've lowered the whitelist_from score. Bret
Re: How much does whitelist_from really do?
Peter Guhl wrote: We have a really huge whitelist - all inserted in user_prefs using whitelist_from. But I constantly get told that mails from people at this list got flagged as spam. That makes me wonder... do I have to do something specific to make sure sa honors whitelist_from? Does it only shift the score or bypass scanning? You may want to do a whitelist_to for the spamassassin-users@ address. -- Matt Barton Webexcellence PH: 317.423.3548 x22 TF: 800.808.6332 x22 FX: 317.423.8735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.webexc.com
