Adding HUGE negative score to whitelisted addresses

[Kai Schaetzl]

Brett Charbeneau wrote on Thu, 4 May 2006 11:30:04 -0400 (EDT):

> I know that the default scoring for a whitelist rule in 
> spam.whitelist.rules is -100. 
>  Where would one increase this value?

why?

> In spam.assassin.prefs.conf?

preferrably in a .conf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin

 I 
> tried adding 
>  
> score USER_IN_WHITELIST -1000 
>  
>  to spam.assassin.prefs.conf, but "MailScanner --lint" complains that 
>  
> warning: score set for non-existent rule USER_IN_WHITELIST

Then you/MailScanner are not using the default /usr/share/spamassassin 
rule directory when doing that lint.
-> /usr/share/spamassassin/ grep USER_IN_WHITELIST *

Kai

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