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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:28:25 +0100
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To: Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: spamassassin question
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:40:37AM +0000, Marwan Sultan typed:
> 
> > lastly, what format is used in the whitelist? is it similar
> > to what i have in /etc/mail/access?
> 
>  Well, I never change the whitelist, my openwebmail generates the data Automaticaly.
>  You will not need to touch the file, as your webmail client will do it.
> 
>  However to answer your question its as
>  whitelist_from  user@xxx.xxx
>  whitelist_from  *@xxx.xxx

This may be confusing, as this thread started about spamassassins auto_whitelist feature.
Sure you can have your webmail or other client generate seperate whitelists as you 
describe here, but the auto_whitelist file really is maintained by SA only, and it's
in Berkeley DB format.

Here's how it works:

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist

Ruben