Today I got my life back.
Decided to ditch TXrep and go back to AWL. It might not be as clever, but at least it works! The inability to do working manual changes to scores meant wasting a lot of time having to add addresses to my whitelist file even for addresses that might not ever send another email in future. Relief... *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 17/12/2021 at 1:16 AM Peter wrote: >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).
