SA bumps up scores for AWL entries

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Fri Jul 28 02:20:24 IST 2006


René Berber wrote:
> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>
>   
>> Does anyone understand why SA bumps scores up instead of down for
>> addresses that are in the auto white-list database? I.e. here is an
>> example spam report:
>>
>> not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=2.302, required 3.5, AWL 1.34,
>> BAYES_50 0.00, NO_REAL_NAME 0.96)
>>
>> Isn't the point of auto white listing to reduce the score?
>>     
>
> I asked the same question a while ago, here's the answer:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.mailscanner/41843
>
>   

Right, thats kind of what i was suspecting, thanks for clearing it up.




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