Beta BUG? - SA Auto Whitelist

[Steve Swaney]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Steve Freegard
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:11 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Beta BUG? - SA Auto Whitelist
>
> Hi All,
>
> I upgraded one of my scanners to the latest beta and SA 3.01 on Saturday
> and have just been checking up on it's progress this morning and noticed
> that quite a few spams had got through - further investigation showed
> that all of them sneaked through because of the 'AWL' (auto white-list)
> rule.
>
> In MailScanner.conf - I've got:
>
> SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no
>
> However this seems to be ignored if SA3 is used - I found the following
> in SA.pm:
>
>      if (MailScanner::Config::Value('spamassassinautowhitelist')) {
>        # JKF 14/6/2002 Enable the auto-whitelisting functionality
>        MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist
> functionality...");
>        if ($SAversion<3) {
>         <snip>
>        }
>      }
>
> So I've added:
>
> use_auto_whitelist 0
>
> to spam.assassin.prefs.conf which has disabled it successfully.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?? - it's probably worth a mention
> somewhere for upgraders.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve.
>

Yes. This option and a few other are correctly set in our sample
spam.assassin.prefs.conf available at:

        http://www.fsl.com/support

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com
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> Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.
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