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

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USherbrooke.ca
Thu Jul 20 14:16:39 IST 2006


Furnish, Trever G a écrit :
> 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,

To really turn it off you need to put the following line into 
spam.assassin.prefs.conf and reload MS:
use_auto_whitelist 0

Denis

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