Joe Kletch wrote: > Reference header text below "3.7 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto > white-list" why is something in the auto whitelist scoring positive? > Shouldn't this be adding negative points? > First, despite it's name the AWL's behavior is NOT limited to being a whitelist.
It's a score averager, and has both white and black behaviors. It's called AWL because the more accurate "ASABPPWBWB" (Automatic Score Averager Based on Past Performance With Blacklist and Whitelist Behaviors) is rather awkward. In this case, the AWL saw that the average score of email from this sender in the past was approximately 7.4. It saw that this message was going to score 0, and it split the difference between the past scores, and the current scores. If the message is in fact not spam, then you should look at why email from this sender scored high enough in the past to earn an average of 7.4. If it is spam, well, the AWL just caught something for you based on past performance of the spammer. Also, unless you have a FP or FN, don't expect the direction of the AWL's score assignment to be indicative of whether the AWL thinks the message is spam or not. It's quite common for the AWL to add a small positive score to nonspam with a very large negative score. It's also common for it to subtract a few points from spam with very high positive scores. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay
