I just want the command to work as advertised. It worked for AWL on my older system, made life a lot easier.
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 16/12/2021 at 9:36 AM Greg Troxel wrote: >"Peter" <em...@ace.net.au> writes: > >> New to TXrep, the manual says the add-addr-to-whitelist command should >add >> -100, but for me it doesn't do anything - nor does add-addr-to-blacklist. >> >> It comes back with SpamAssassin TxRep: 1 with either the white or >> blacklist. >> >> While the server is new, I want to be able to adjust a senders score, but >> don't want to make new rules which will be there forever. >> >> Am I missing something? > >I have also struggled with understanding what's going on, and tried to >run some scripts to look at the database. > >If what you want is to preload a good reputation that will then be >subject to adjustment, you probably want to write a program to adjust >the database and say put in fake data that the average score is -5 over >10 messages, and then let it go. > >Beware though that txrep is per sender, per sender/addr pair, and other >things (I forget the details), and so you may need to put in more fake >data than you are willing to put up with. > >If you are putting in -100 and it stays, I don't see why that should be >about txrep rather than just fixed huge scores for addresses. > >I think what SA needs is a welcomelist command that takes a score, or >maybe just a welcomelist_mild that gives -5. I'm uncomfortable putting >tons of addresses in welcomelist without dkim or rcvd, but -5 might be >ok, enough to keep ham out of my purgatory folders (>1 < 5) while also >keeping any forged spam out of inbox (<1).
