In emacs rmail what varieties of different techniques are there for
sorting your favorite correspondents from the mix?... leaving the hundreds
of spam commercials. A filter for the campus computer system puts subject
lines and headers on many of the hundreds of spam commercials

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> I too am seeing very weird things with 2.42 and AWL.  I  installed a
> fresh system, and then ran a bunch of test spam through it (all from the
> same user).  All messages should have scored over 15.  The AWL kept
> adjusting them down so that after about 10 message I had a negative
That's exactly what is intended; the idea is that legit senders who
habitually score just > 5, will eventually get out of "AWL hell" after
Note that running a single spam through "spamassassin -a -t" *will*
eventually whitelist the spammer.  but that's why the man page tells you