AWL problems

[Martin Hepworth]

Dave

the awl will (should) only get created for the user MailScanner runs as.

Are you sure you're running SA from the MTA/procmail etc??

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Dave Duffner - PSCGi wrote:
>         See now he's hitting the same wall I am...
>
>         Even deleting the AWL's for the individual accounts,
> MS is still compiling the AWL file.  And that's with all
> the config points possible turned off, MS indicating that
> autolearn is disabled.
>
>         Since deleting the AWL file in the .spamassassin dir
> for each user, it's lowered the point value back down to 0.0
> and then starts averaging it back up.  Julian's ratings for
> his posts here that I get stopped AWL rating it, then started
> with a 0.0 and as I get more of his posts I think we're up
> to a 0.9 rating.  Once it sees enough of his posts, it'll
> be back to tagging his mail until I kill that AWL file in
> that account's dir again.
>
>         Chris may not be that far along in the process yet,
> but it certainly sounds like he's heading in that direction.
>
>         So either we've got a weird bug or there's some setting
> being overridden or hidden somewhere so deep that it's
> triggering the AWL ratings again.  And with a ton of accounts,
> that's a serious PIA to have to manually delete AWL files on
> a constant basis to kill it off.
>
>         I'm open for any suggestions, scripts, cron jobs or
> otherwise to get that fool thing stopped.  In our case we're
> using an Ensim Hosting OS, so we're stuck with 3.XX of SA
> as any upgrades that might've fixed this would either foul
> up Ensim or be overwritten in the next half-a'ed upgrade or
> patch from Ensim for the OS.
>
>      David J. Duffner
>      President
>      PSCGi
>      Paradise Shore Communications Group
>      www.pscginternet.com
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:49 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: AWL problems
>>
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>if you're using SA 3.x this doesn't work. You'll need to turn
>>it off in the SA config files.
>>
>>--
>>Martin Hepworth
>>Snr Systems Administrator
>>Solid State Logic
>>Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>
>>
>>Fractal IT Dept. wrote:
>>
>>>Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>I'm having a problem with ham becoming spam because it receives AWL
>>>points. I'm not sure why this is happening, because in my
>>>mailscanner.conf file, I have:
>>>
>>>SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no
>>>
>>>Any thoughts as to what could possibly be causing this?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Chris
>
>
>
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