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[AMaViS-user] How to remove an address from auto-whitelist?
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Andreas Stallmann
2006-11-10 09:32:00 UTC
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Hi!

I do continiously receive messages from a (non-SPAM) sender, which are
marked as SPAM. One could say that the messages where (once upon a
time...) marked correctly as SPAM, because they were send from a MTA
with dynamic IP, but that's no longer the case.

The mail header says, that the address was auto-whitelisted:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yes, score=8.311 tagged_above=-999 required=4 tests=[AWL=10.909,
BAYES_00=-2.599, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001]
...
0.0 UNPARSEABLE_RELAY Informational: message has unparseable relay
lines-2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score:
0.0000] 11 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Indeed, I did not switch on auto-whitelisting, neither in amavisd.conf...
#$sa_auto_whitelist = 1;
nor in spamassassins main.cf or local.cf.

Instead, I put the sender-addresses in a whitelist sender map of
amavisd.conf:

@whitelist_sender_maps = ( ['.example.de', '.xyz.de'] );

Isn't that the way to say: Mails coming from those domains are very
unlikely to be spam, don't treat them as such?[1]


I have to get her address out of the AWL, because I can't afford to let
it be marked as spam. She's one of our most important customers and I'll
really get into hot water if I'll miss one of her messages because it's
marked as SPAM and filtered[2] to my SPAM folder!

How can I remove an address from the auto-whitelist?

TNX,

A.
[1]And isn't the term AWL a little misleading, because what happened to
the sender of the message given above, is that she was auto-blacklisted?
[2] Yes, I know, I could adjust my Firefox filter settings, but that
would heal the symptom, not the cause.
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Jakob Curdes
2006-11-10 14:36:29 UTC
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Post by Andreas Stallmann
Hi!
I do continiously receive messages from a (non-SPAM) sender, which are
marked as SPAM. One could say that the messages where (once upon a
time...) marked correctly as SPAM, because they were send from a MTA
with dynamic IP, but that's no longer the case.
... read http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay

Hope this helps,
JC


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Gary V
2006-11-10 15:44:19 UTC
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Post by Andreas Stallmann
Indeed, I did not switch on auto-whitelisting, neither in amavisd.conf...
#$sa_auto_whitelist = 1;
nor in spamassassins main.cf or local.cf.
You don't have to do anything. AWL is enabled by default. To turn it
off one would have to either set:
use_auto_whitelist 0
in local.cf or comment out:
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL
in v310.pre (if you are using SA 3.1)
Post by Andreas Stallmann
Instead, I put the sender-addresses in a whitelist sender map of
@whitelist_sender_maps = ( ['.example.de', '.xyz.de'] );
Isn't that the way to say: Mails coming from those domains are very
unlikely to be spam, don't treat them as such?[1]
It's better to place the sender (or the domain if you must) in
@score_sender_maps and use soft whitelisting. Place the address
and a negative score amongst the other examples.
Post by Andreas Stallmann
I have to get her address out of the AWL, because I can't afford to let
it be marked as spam. She's one of our most important customers and I'll
really get into hot water if I'll miss one of her messages because it's
marked as SPAM and filtered[2] to my SPAM folder!
How can I remove an address from the auto-whitelist?
As Jakob noted:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay
Post by Andreas Stallmann
[1]And isn't the term AWL a little misleading, because what happened to
the sender of the message given above, is that she was auto-blacklisted?
Yes it is misleading, AWL is a score averaging system.
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist

Gary V


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