auto whitelisting

[Green, Rodney]

Matt Kettler wrote:
> Green, Rodney wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it recommended to disable auto whitelisting in spam.assassin.prefs.conf?
>>     
>
> Largely a matter of personal preference.
>
> That said, my personal opinion is that SA's AWL is not ready for production use
> on a mailserver that serves more than 10 people. The SA devs would argue
> otherwise, and they do use it on their production boxes.
>
> I base my opinion on the lack of automatic database maintenance. There is no
> auto-expire for AWL entries. Even if you use the "check-whitelist --clean"
> script, this only removes entries based on the number of times a particular
> address has been seen. It will not remove an address that was used 100 times,
> then became inactive 2 years ago..
>
> So, until the AWL gets a real atime-based auto-expire system like the bayes
> system has, I will refrain from using it on a production box.
>
> Of course, I'd suggest you develop your own opinion, as the requirements of your
> system may be quite different from mine.
>   

Thanks Matt. I'm going to try running without it enabled for a while and 
see what happens.

Rod



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