At 03:45 PM 2/11/04 -0800, JR wrote:
Where can I find what has been automatically added to SA's whitelist/blacklist?
I know I'm not manually putting anything in there, so I'm guessing that it's bayes or something else building them?
I ask because my really high-scoring spam is getting so many points because of USER_IN_BLACKLIST=100points, but when I went to investigate (out of curiosity) I find they also have an AWL negative score, which confuses me. Why would a message have both?
USER_IN_BLACKLIST is part of a completely separate system than the AWL.
USER_IN_BLACKLIST results from a match of a blacklist_from stamtent in your local.cf or user_prefs. These MUST be placed there manualy.. SA does NOT add them automatically, or via any command-line.
The AWL doesn't work by automatcaly adding senders to a whitelist or a blacklist. It's VERY different than that. At the most basic level, the AWL is a score averaging system.
I'd recomend some reading of the wiki for info on how the AWL works.
http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/AutoWhitelist
It's also important to understand that a negative score given by the awl does not mean the AWL thinks the email isn't spam. It just thinks the current score is more spammy than past spam from the same sender.
http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/AwlWrongWay
