SA autowhitelisting revisited

[Kevin Miller]

Was checking up on the bayes stuff on one of my mailscanners and noticed the
auto-whitelist was quite large.  Did a search in the archives and found
Steve Swaney's post that said:
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"The defaults appear to have changed. I noticed the same thing until I
added:

####################
# The --auto-whitelist and -a options for "spamd" and "spamassassin" to
# turn on the auto-whitelist have been removed and replaced by the
# "use_auto_whitelist" configuration option which is also now turned on by
# default

use_auto_whitelist 0
####################

To my spam.assassin.prefs.conf"
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(Thanks Steve!)  I added the change but I'm wondering now though if I should
blow away the auto-whitelist file?  Can I just delete it?  Should I 'touch'
a new file afterwards or will SA automatically recreate it (but not populate
it) if it needs one?

Also noticed a couple of odd files: bayes.mutex and auto-whitelist.mutex.
What are those?  Never noticed them before.

Thanks...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
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