MailScanner and SpamAssassin 3.0.2 - AutoWhiteList not working

[Julian Field]

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Yes, known problem. Switching off AWL in MailScanner.conf no longer
appears to work, it hasn't ever worked with SA3, and I haven't been able
to track down why. Not yet, anyway.

Michael H. Martel wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I just noticed that my spamassassin setup was using AWL, which I know
> I had
> disabled.  So I looked in my Mailscanner.conf and I see :
>
> SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no
>
> Ok, so it's disabled.  Stop MailScanner, delete the auto_whitelist files,
> and restart MailScanner. There they come back.  How odd.
>
> So I added the line :
>
>        use_auto_whitelist 0
>
> To my spam.assassin.prefs.conf, and voila Auto Whitelist is disabled.
>
> Has anyone see this before ?
>
> My modules etc are listed below.
>
> [root at hemlock MailScanner]# cd bin
> [root at hemlock bin]# ./MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux hemlock.vsc.edu 2.4.20-28.7smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 11:18:31 EST 2003
> i686 unknown
> This is Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.37.7
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.14    Archive::Zip
> 1.03    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.14    File::Temp
> 1.29    HTML::Entities
> 3.43    HTML::Parser
> 2.30    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.21    IO
> 1.10    IO::File
> 1.123   IO::Pipe
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.415   MIME::Decoder
> 5.415   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.415   MIME::Head
> 5.415   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.415   MIME::Tools
> 0.09    Net::CIDR
> 1.08    POSIX
> 1.77    Socket
> 0.05    Sys::Syslog
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.810   DB_File
> 1.08    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.33    Digest::MD5
> 2.10    Digest::SHA1
> 0.44    Inline
> missing Mail::ClamAV
> 3.000002        Mail::SpamAssassin
> 1.997   Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.15    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.48    Net::DNS
> 0.32    Net::LDAP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 1.2     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 2.42    Test::Harness
> 0.47    Test::Simple
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
>
>
>
>
> Michael
>
> --
>
>  --------------------------------o---------------------------------
>   Michael H. Martel              | Systems Administrator
>   martelm at quark.vsc.edu          | Vermont State Colleges
>   http://probe.vsc.edu/~michael  | PH:802-241-2544 FX:802-241-3363
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