This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > BTW, the only fals positives I've got after tuning my user_prefs where > caused by AWL and I have no idea what this means. I have got a fine > Mail from a mailinglist (userlinux) marked as: > > Content analysis details: (41.8 points, 5.0 required) > > pts rule name description > ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- > -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% > [score: 0.0000] > 1.5 PLING_PLING Subject has lots of exclamation marks > 45 AWL AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment > > I only found sparse documentation about this "Auto"-whitelist feature > which sometimes adds and sometimes removes scores. Even if it is off topic > for this list, could you give some hint (perhaps to some relevant docs) > how to prevent these false positives. Auto-Whitelist does a decaying average, IIRC, of the scores of all the emails from that address. So, if I sent you an email with the GTUBE line in it, that would score 1000. My next message, which by itself scores 0, now scores 500, and so on. I find this feature not very helpful, but YMMV. It also seems that you have some Whitelist_from: addresses in a preferences file, and that is messing up your scoring of things. A matched whitelist address scores something like -100, making it very difficult to be picked up as spam. I think there are some example whitelist_from's in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf - perhaps you uncommented them, and that's what doing this? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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