High Positive SA AWL rule ?

[Drew Marshall]

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On Thu, September 29, 2005 06:22, Drew Marshall wrote:
> On 28 Sep 2005, at 21:08, Matt Kettler wrote:
>
>> Mailscanner wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone noticed SA run AWL giving high positive scores like;
>>>
>>> Spam Report:
>>> Score     Matching Rule     Description 7.42     AWL     From:
>>> address is in the
>>> auto white-list
>>> -2.60     BAYES_00     Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sure, I've seen it do that lots of times. Is there a specific
>> problem, or were
>> you merely confused about the AWL having a large positive score?
>>
>> In general, you might want to read up on how the AWL works. Once
>> you have a
>> basic handle on what the AWL *really* is (hint: it's a score
>> averager, not a
>> whitelist), you'll have a better idea what to look at to try to
>> figure out
>> problems you may have with it.
>>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist
>
> I know with SA versions before 3.x it was recommended to turn off
> AWL. Since then I have played with this being on and off. It works
> fine for a while until a nice spam message or two get hit with a nice
> big negative score and it sails through. I was wondering if I am just
> not giving the system enough time to sort it's self out or if SA with
> MailScanner is better off with out AWL?

Anyone got any opinions on this? It would be nice to know what others are
running with. There was some inconclusive debate when SA 3.0 was released,
which from memory resulted in a 'We'll give it a go and see'. I just
wondered what if any results could be drawn.

Drew


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