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6 sa-awl - examine and manipulate SpamAssassin's auto-whitelist db
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9 sa-awl [--clean] [--min n] [dbfile]
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12 Check or clean a SpamAssassin auto-whitelist (AWL) database file.
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14 The name of the file is specified after any options, as "dbfile". The
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19 Clean out infrequently-used AWL entries. The "--min" switch can be
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23 Select the threshold at which entries are kept or deleted when
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30 AVG (TOTSCORE/COUNT) -- EMAIL|ip=IPBASE
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34 0.0 (0.0/7) -- dawson@example.com|ip=208.192
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37 "AVG" is the average score; "TOTSCORE" is the total score of all mails
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42 AWL base IP address is a way to identify the sender's IP address they
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44 spammers to spoof. The algorithm is as follows:
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46 - take the last Received header that contains a public IP address -- namely
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49 - chop off the last two octets, assuming that the user may be in an ISP's
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