sa-awl - examine and manipulate SpamAssassin's auto-whitelist db

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  OUTPUT 

NAME

sa−awl − examine and manipulate SpamAssassin’s auto−whitelist db

SYNOPSIS

sa-awl [−−clean] [−−min n] [dbfile]

DESCRIPTION

Check or clean a SpamAssassin auto-whitelist (AWL) database file.

The name of the file is specified after any options, as "dbfile". The default is "$HOME/.spamassassin/auto−whitelist".

OPTIONS

−−clean

Clean out infrequently-used AWL entries. The "−−min" switch can be used to select the threshold at which entries are kept or deleted.

−−min n

Select the threshold at which entries are kept or deleted when "−−clean" is used. The default is 2, so entries that have only been seen once are deleted.

OUTPUT

The output looks like this:

AVG (TOTSCORE/COUNT) −− EMAIL|ip=IPBASE

For example:

0.0 (0.0/7) −− [email protected]|ip=208.192
21.8 (43.7/2) −− [email protected]|ip=200.106

"AVG" is the average score; "TOTSCORE" is the total score of all mails seen so far; "COUNT" is the number of messages seen from that sender; "EMAIL" is the sender’s email address, and "IPBASE" is the AWL base IP address.

AWL base IP address is a way to identify the sender’s IP address they frequently send from, in an approximate way, but remaining hard for spammers to spoof. The algorithm is as follows:

− take the last Received header that contains a public IP address −− namely
one which is not in private, unrouted IP space.
− chop off the last two octets, assuming that the user may be in an ISP's
dynamic address pool.


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