[Linux-disciples] Whitelisting

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

>I've written a script [1] to extract all the email addresses
>of people I've written to, in an attempt to create a
>spamassassin whitelist. There are more than 1,400 email
>addresses in the list it generates. My question is: how
>would you guys recommend that I incorporate this list into
>spamassassin/procmail? Is it worthwhile to feed a 1,400-item
>list into procmail every time a new message comes in? How
>does one typically handle whitelisting?
>  
>
SpamAssassin should already be autowhitelisting if you have the right 
parameters.  Check out your spamassassin headers and see if messages are 
tagged with AWL.  You shouldn't have to think about this at all.

Otherwise, you can pipe your list into spamassassin -W.