I got the same results. I ran check_whitelist --clean and after lots of scrolling names and the appearance of cleaning, the file size is the same as it was to start. Other suggestions to try? Thx.
Jim Smith > -----Original Message----- > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:17 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: AWL growing too large > > Matt Kettler wrote: > > Jim Smith wrote: > > > I've got some clients with auto-whitelist files in their > > > /home/USER/.spamassassin directory that are over 20 megs. Is there > > > a ceiling to these AWL files and a way to adjust that ceiling? I > > > think 20 megs is rather large for clients with 25 meg > limits. If it > > > needs to be 20+ megs to work well, I'll need to adjust everyone's > > > email limits upward. I don't want to remove it as it is an > > > effective tool. Suggestions? > > > > in the /tools directory of the tarball is a script called > > "check_whitelist". If you run check-whitelist --clean, it will run > > through the current user's AWL and purge any AWL entries which have > > only been seen once. > > That looks quite useful. Mine aren't quite that large, but there are > some in the 5-10 meg range. > > I grabbed check-whitelist from the 3.1.1 tarball and ran it against > some of my larger AWL databases. I'm running 3.1.0, but I haven't > read anything about changes to the AWL in the latest release, so > hopefully that isn't a problem. > > In any case, it seemed to run fine and cleaned out quite a few > single-hit entries, but the files didn't shrink. Is that normal? > Will they shrink eventually or is it just using a sparse file that > will now stay the same size until it fills up again? > > -- > Bowie >
