whitelist options in SA user_prefs not being obeyed?

[David Gibbs]

Anyone know why a whitelist_from entry in my SpamAssassin user_prefs
file wouldn't be followed?

I've got the following entries (amoung others):
whitelist_from  joeuser at aol.com
score USER_IN_WHITELIST -100

But when I received a message from Joe, the following headers were
logged ...
> Return-Path: <joeuser at aol.com>
> Received: from qtemp.net (yada yada)
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:51:51 -0600
> From: joeuser at aol.com
> Message-Id: <200401102252.i0AMpUY4030709 at linux.midrange.com>
> Apparently-To: david at midrange.com
> X-Mid-MailScanner-Info: Virus scanned at midrange.com
> X-Mid-MailScanner: Clean
> X-Mid-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=4.185, required 5,
>       BAYES_56 0.00, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS 0.99, MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT 3.03,
>       NO_REAL_NAME 0.16)
> X-Mid-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssss

Notice there is no USER_IN_WHITELIST tag?

Any suggestions?

btw: I mocked up the mail from joeuser at aol.com to test it.

Thanks!

david