Jeff Chan wrote:
As you suggest, even an uncomplete whitelist could be useful for
whitening (improving scores (decreasing ham scores)) messages in
SpamAssassin, but there are caveats and potential pitfalls.
It could also be used as a FP tripwire, which is how we will soon be
using ours.
- Barr
Thanks for the informative reply.
We have a communal, automatic [1] email address and manual keyword based
corporate-wide whitelists that predate our use of SA; I was thinking of
factoring out the email address subsystem and replacing it with the AWL
as a replacement to simplify the overall syst
Matt Kettler wrote:
Personaly, I find this dangerous. I strongly disagree with the
practice of "seeding" the AWL.. You really shouldn't have to, nor want
to.
Would you mind explaining why you find this to be dangerous?
- Barrie
I am trying to seed the autowhitelist with ham & spam and found the
"learn_with_whitelist" option in PerMsgLearner. A patch to sa-learn to
expose this internal option as a command line option is below.
Question: is this a good or a dangerous idea?
Thanks,
Barrie
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