AWL?

Martin Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed Nov 22 17:36:29 GMT 2006


Christian Campbell wrote:
> A SA rule - AWL - seems to be subtracting score, and effectively marking 
> my spam as ham.  I've found that it's a Auto-whitelist rule, but I'm 
> unsure as to why it's being triggered.  Here's an example header.  It's 
> the typical debora stock spam...
>  
> Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
> Received: from mydomain.com ([xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) by internal.mydomain.com 
> with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
>   Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:00:01 -0500
> Received: from IBM-2CAA5E0CA42.rdsar.ro ([86.125.206.121])
>  by mydomain.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kAME86XO013605
>  for <helpdesk at mydomain.com <mailto:helpdesk at mydomain.com>>; Wed, 22 Nov 
> 2006 09:08:06 -0500
> Received: from 64.202.166.12 (HELO smtp.secureserver.net)
>      by mydomain.com with esmtp (151H*6E+,16: @(/M7C)
>      id FI,),4-*/*XFJ-2B
>      for helpdesk at mydomain.com <mailto:helpdesk at mydomain.com>; Wed, 22 
> Nov 2006 13:58:28 -0120
> From: "Dean Slaughter" <deborahweilert at bosh.com 
> <mailto:deborahweilert at bosh.com>>
> To: <helpdesk at mydomain.com <mailto:helpdesk at mydomain.com>>
> Subject: Dean wrote:
> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:58:28 -0120
> Message-ID: <01c70e3e$495f6be0$6c822ecf at deborahweilert 
> <mailto:01c70e3e$495f6be0$6c822ecf at deborahweilert>>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>  charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2663
> Thread-Index: Aca6QO9*397L+'W25/33<A0N6U,=*B==
> X-Brueggers-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruegger's IT 
> Department for more information
> X-Brueggers-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-Brueggers-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=4.853,
>  required 5, AWL -4.85, BRU_STOCK1 5.00, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 1.33,
>  RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 1.71, SARE_PROLOSTOCK_SYM1 1.66)
> X-Brueggers-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssss
> X-MailScanner-From: deborahweilert at bosh.com <mailto:deborahweilert at bosh.com>
> Return-Path: deborahweilert at bosh.com <mailto:deborahweilert at bosh.com>
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Nov 2006 14:00:01.0340 (UTC) 
> FILETIME=[80B427C0:01C70E3E]
>  
> What cause it to match the AWL rule?  I certainly never added anything 
> like this to a whitelist.
>  
> Thanks,
> Christian
>  
>  
> Christian Campbell

Hi

I find AWL a PITA (ie doesn't work well for me). Alot of people find it 
works OK, alot say any user population over 8 it's not good for.

Try commenting out the plugin in /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre (or 
what .pre file its in, and restart Mailscanner to stop AWL running.

If you want to keep AWL, make sure trusted_networks and the associated 
SA parameters are set correctly in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf - this 
can help.

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

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