Hey, how can I put a email address on the safe list. It always gets on my spam file. I use Spamassassin 3.0.2 runned by procmail. What are auto-whitelist, bayes_toks and bayes_seen for? Can I edit this. thanks,

To make it system wide add it to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf eg to allow mail from anyone at abc.com: whitelist_from *@abc.com To whitelist just for specific users add it to their ~/.user_prefs

I can't find the whitelist file for the users, I cant find .user_prefs, under each user I can find, auto-whilelist, bayes_toks and bayes_seen thanks,

Sounds like you are looking for ~/.spamassassin/.user_prefs and not ~/.user_prefs....it should be in the root of the users home directory. If not copy one from from /etc/mail/user_prefs. On my server I've made a /etc/skel/.user_prefs so that it is automatically created for new users. In case you didn't know a "." at the beginning of GNU/Linux filenames makes them hidden, you can view them with ls and the -a switch.

yeah i know its hidden, i only can see the files i mentioned. Can I see an example of that setting file online or yours.. thanks,

All you need is "whitelist_from *@abc.com" as it will use default values for anything else. FYI here's my .user_prefs which is pretty standard: # SpamAssassin user preferences file. See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' # for details of what can be tweaked. ########################################################################### # Rewrite subject? rewrite_subject 1 subject_tag ***SPAM*** # How many hits before a mail is considered spam. required_hits 5 # Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns, so # "friend@somewhere.com", "*@isp.com", or "*.domain.net" will all work. # whitelist_from someone@somewhere.com # Add your own customised scores for some tests below. The default scores are # read from the installed spamassassin rules files, but you can override them # here. To see the list of tests and their default scores, go to # http://spamassassin.org/tests.html . # # score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn # Speakers of Asian languages, like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, will almost # definitely want to uncomment the following lines. They will switch off some # rules that detect 8-bit characters, which commonly trigger on mails using CJK # character sets, or that assume a western-style charset is in use. # # score HTML_COMMENT_8BITS 0 # score UPPERCASE_25_50 0 # score UPPERCASE_50_75 0 # score UPPERCASE_75_100 0

In created the .user_pref file and still it doesnt work. I still receive it as spam...