SA whitelist db grows over time

[Rose, Bobby]

I think this is more a question for the Spamassassin list.  I can say
that they are not zapped because that defeats the purpose.  Check the SA
site for info on what AWL really does.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff A. Earickson [mailto:jaearick at COLBY.EDU] 
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:24 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: SA whitelist db grows over time


Julian,

   Solaris 8, sendmail 8.12.6, spamassassin 2.43, mailscanner 3.24-1
(sorry, I'm too timid to jump to v4 in the middle of the semester, I'm
aiming for Thanksgiving break).

   I've noticed that auto-whitelist.dir and auto-whitelist.pag files in
/.spamassassin grow over time.  This morning I found a 52 MB .pag file!!
I stopped mailscanner, zapped these two files, and restarted
mailscanner.  Spamassassin created new .dir and .pag files, and they
have been growing in size again since I did this (about 90 minutes ago).
When I did a "strings" on the .pag file, it has domain names, email
addresses, and IP numbers separated by pipe symbols -- akin to a
procmail filter recipe.  My spam.whitelist.conf file is relatively tiny
and unchanging.

   Has anybody else noticed this phenomenon?  Do these files get zapped
and recreated at the 4-hour mailscanner restart interval?  Should they?
If v4 doesn't do the 4-hour restart, what effect does this have on v4?

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