Linda Walsh wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
I got a really poorly scored piece of spam -- one thing that stood out
as weird was report claimed the sender was in my AWL.
Any sender who has sent mail to you previously will be in your AWL.
This is probably the most misunderstood component of SA. Read the wiki.
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist
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To be clear about what is being white listed, would it
hurt if the 'brief report for the AWL', instead of :
-1.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
it had
-1.3 AWL AWL: 'From: 518501.com' addr is in auto white-list
So I can see what domain it is flagging with a 'white' value?
I don't know of any emails from '518501.com' that wouldn't have
been classified spam, so none should have a 'negative value'.
If the AWL is assigning a -1.3 score, that means that the previous
message from this sender averaged 2.6 points lower than this email.
Exactly how that works out depends on what other rules hit on this
message. Was the -1.3 score enough to prevent this message from being
marked as spam? It is normal for the AWL scores to be either positive
or negative for any mail (ham or spam), but they should not be high
enough to change the spam determination of the message unless it is
significantly different from the sender's past messages.
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Bowie
