~root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist is huge -- but autowhitelist is not enabled...?

[Martin Hepworth]

Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> D'OH!  Nevermind -- found the comment next to this option in the new
> config file:
> 
> # To disable whitelisting, you must set "use_auto_whitelist 0" in your 
> # spam.assassin.prefs.conf file as well as set this to no.
> 
> Thanks, Julian, for adding that comment. :-)
> 
> --
> Trever
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Furnish, Trever G 
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:26 PM
>> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
>> Subject: ~root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist is huge -- but 
>> autowhitelist is not enabled...?
>>
>> If SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no, shouldn't my system NOT 
>> be creating ~root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist?
>>
>> My auto-whitelist file is 185MB, even though mailscanner's 
>> configured not to use auto-whitelist (and spamassassin isn't 
>> used by anything on this server other than mailscanner).
>>
>> MailScanner version is 4.38.9; spamassassin version is 3.0.2. 
>>  I only noticed the huge auto-whitelist file as part of 
>> preparing for upgrades to the latest versions of both.  I'm 
>> just surprised to find it being used, since the mailscanner 
>> setting is set to no.  (And yes, the file's recent, not just 
>> an old file.)
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding?  Should that be in use?  Is this just 
>> a bug in my software versions? 
>>  
>> --
>> Trever Furnish, tgfurnish at herffjones.com Herff Jones, Inc. 
>> Unix / Network Administrator
>> Phone: 317.612.3519
>> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Unix.
>>
Trevor

If you're using SpamAssassin 3.x you need to edit the 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/*.pre files and make sure the autowhitelist 
pluging is commented out...

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

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