Bug 524 - AWL should ignore whitelist_from entries
Summary: AWL should ignore whitelist_from entries
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Hardware: Other other
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2002-07-07 21:30 UTC by Marc Perkel
Modified: 2002-08-14 08:58 UTC (History)
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Description Marc Perkel 2002-07-07 21:30:08 UTC 
First - the bug. I'm using a common file for AWL rather than personal DB files.
The reason is - I'm running virtual email and there is no real users.

Having said that, if the permissions on the common DB file are wrong, SA fails
to score the message. It also creates the DB file with the wrong permissions for
shared access.

What should happen is that if there is a DB access error, it should just ship
that test gracefully and report an error about the access denial to the DB file.

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Second issue. Many spammers who spam me use my own email address as the return
address as if I'm sending it to myself. And because of that they score white
points based on my own white email history. So - if the delivery address matches
the from address or return path - then AWL points should not be calculated.

There should also be other logic to not assign AWL points from forged email -
especially if it gains the impersonator white points.

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Third - and I can't really document this - but there are messages that come from
spammers that get assigned white points for no reason at all - and one case
where one of our staff got assigned black points for no reason - as if the
database is confused as to who is who.

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And finally - I really like AWL if it would work better that would be great.
Comment 1 Michael Moncur 2002-07-08 08:49:19 UTC 
Since a few AWL issues are being lumped together here, let me add one more: the 
AWL should not count messages that are whitelisted due to a whitelist_from 
entry.

Example: I get a spam with user@oreilly.com as a forged From address. 
Oreilly.com is listed in whitelist_from, so the message gets -100 points. I 
remove the whitelist_from entry to prevent this. The next spam that has this 
forged address gets -80 or so points from the AWL.

In other words, the AWL is serving to make whitelist_from entries "sticky" long 
after they're removed...
Comment 2 Justin Mason 2002-08-14 16:58:18 UTC 
ok, the first 2 parts of this bug ;) are fixed.
the 3rd one is a bit tricky and I think will need more info.
the last one -- Mike's -- I'm not going to get into this
late before 2.40.  resolving to LATER....