Proxmox Auto-Whitelist Feature

Hello,

The auto-whitelist is an averaging system. It keeps track of the historical average of a sender, and pushes any subsequent mail towards that average.

Let me explain it with an example:

Sender A sended some e-mails before with following spam scores:

mail1 - score=2
mail2 - score=2.5
mail3 - score=2.5
mail4 - score=2
mail5 - score=1

If now Sender A sends mail6. Without AWL spamassasin will calculate a score of 6 (=spam), this mail would be filtered by the mail gateway


AWL is a feature to gain a better result. It looks at the sender's hinstory and current score and calculate an average. (2+2.5+2.5+2+1+6)/6 = 16/6 = 2.6
With AWL mail6 has a score of 2.6 points and will not be declared as spam.

AWL is good feature to prevent false-positive, because historical communication influenes score calculation.

For a more detailed description see http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist

regards.
Christian
 

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