Spam Assassain Options - Can someone explain why there are options to class senders as SPAM

[shoulders]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu Linux 22.04.5
Usermin version	2.102
Virtualmin version	7.20.2 Pro
Theme version	21.20.7
Apache version	2.4.52
Package updates	49 package updates are available

I am trying to configure my Spamassassain options and in particular my whitelists. However there are 2 sections that all seem to do the same thing which is confusing.

Can someone explain to me what each of the 3 specific options do.

Virtualmin --> Mail options --> SpamAssassin Configuration

Additional

Denied addresses and Destination addresses have the same or similar options

[stefan1959]

Its all documented
https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html

[shoulders]

The whole idea of Virtualmin is so managing a server is easy.

Giving arbitrary names to spamassassin features without explanations is not useful. I will like with all of the other setting have to read webmins code to find out what they actually do.

I just want a panel to do the work for me.

I had to inspect the HTML to find out what these do + the link @stefan1959 sent me

• Senders to never classify as spam = whitelist_from
• Exceptions for senders to never classify as spam = unwhitelist_from
• Sender to never classify as spam = whitelist_from_rcvd

[stefan1959]

I found it very easy for find that info, its called google.

[shoulders]

The link you found was easy, and end user will not be able to do what I did.

[Joe]

Yeah, those should probably have tooltips with those details.

Though, I don’t try to micromanage spam like that, it’s too much work for too little benefit. Sender addresses change all the time. You really need heuristics and a corpus of data for Bayesian filtering, rather than a bunch of hand maintained lists.

[shoulders]

I was trying to replicate some filtering rules I had on cpanel as I now have a lot of spam coming through. I can stop 90% with a couple of rules.

In the future I would like to use an automatic method to add and remove rules generated from an external program.