On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Robert Leonard wrote:
> Many of the emails coming to me from the SA and SURBL discussions are being
> tagged as spam by SA.. What is the best way to whitelist these groups, and
> secondly, is there a way to prevent the Bayes system from learning from them
> (I use autolearn)..
> 
> Thanks!

Depends on your system.  My mail is delivered by procmail, so I have a
stanza in my .procmailrc that exclude SA list mail from SA scanning:

# Don't let SA filter this traffic as it could poison the Bayes filter.
:0:
* ^List-Id: \"SpamAssassin Users\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
/var/spool/mail/bob

:0fw
| spamc

# Any spam with 9 or more * will be summarily punted.
:0 H
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
/dev/null

# For testing the above
# $HOME/Mail/reallyspam

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$HOME/Mail/caughtspam

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.bobcatos.com
Grace happens.

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