SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

Hi,

(Up-to-date Sid system.)

SA, which is "attached" to Postfix, isn't doing what I think it 
should do.  According to instructions I found on the Intarweb, 
per-user whitelist addresses go in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs with 
the format:
whitelist_from  foo@bar.com

(Yes, I restarted SA after adding the entries, and the machine has 
even been rebooted since then.)

However, whitelisted accounts are still being scored as spam.  Any 
thoughts?

Thanks.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market
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