How does SA auto white-list works?

[René Berber]

Matt Kettler wrote:
> René Berber wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the SA auto white-list feature with MailScanner 4.54.6, and there's
>> something confusing in the result I'm seeing: a score is added if the address is
>> white listed.  Shouldn't it be subtracted?
>>
> 
> Despite it's name, the AWL is NOT a whitelist. It's called that for lack of any
> better name that isn't huge.
> 
> The AWL is really a "History-based average score tracking system with automatic
> whitelist and blacklist behaviors resulting from factoring past performance into
> current scores".  But HBASTSAWBBRFPPICS is a rather long acronym.
> 
> Please read:
> 
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist
> 
> and
> 
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay

Thanks!  That makes things a lot clearer.
-- 
René Berber