SpamAssassin -- whitelist/blacklist user_prefs

From: John Blaustein (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:45:27 -0700

Hi,

My ISP uses SpamAssassin 2.52, and it very successfully tags most spam. A
Message Rule in Outlook Express trashes all the tagged messages.

I would like to lower the "required_hits" setting to 1.0, but I'm worried
about some legitimate mail being tagged as spam. I thought I would add all
of the e-mail addresses in my WAB to my SpamAssassin user_pref file using
the "whitelist_from" field. I have about 600 e-mail address that I'd add
using "whitelist_from."

I have asked my ISP and I've searched the Internet, and I can't seem to find
if there is a limit to the number of entries the user_prefs file can have.
Can the user_prefs file have 600-1,000 whitelist_from and/or blacklist_from
entries?

Does anyone here know?

Thank you!

John

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