# Spam Assassain Options - Can someone explain why there are options to class senders as SPAM **URL:** \ **Category:** Virtualmin\ **Created:** [November 9, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326 "2024-11-09T09:41:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shoulders](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/shoulders/32/10086_2.png) [@shoulders](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/shoulders)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/1 "2024-11-09T09:41:23Z")
| 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. ![image](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/4/040071a57f97dc7b3cb267c9751de59e46b87007.png) `Virtualmin --> Mail options --> SpamAssassin Configuration --> Allowed and Denied Addresses` ## Additional `Denied addresses` and `Destination addresses` have the same or similar options ---
**Author:** ![stefan1959](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@stefan1959](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/stefan1959)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/2 "2024-11-09T13:01:47Z")
Its all documented [https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail\_SpamAssassin\_Conf.html](https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html) ![image](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/9/198fd49e6ae3653867c3b7e3dc98717063cad537.png) ![image](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/a/9a65dd6546878a51f69d4d65c6aa5f9f9ed4db1c.png) ---
**Author:** ![shoulders](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/shoulders/32/10086_2.png) [@shoulders](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/shoulders)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/3 "2024-11-09T13:32:26Z")
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](https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#whitelist_from) - **Exceptions for senders to never classify as spam** = [unwhitelist\_from](https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#unwhitelist_from) - **Sender to never classify as spam** = [whitelist\_from\_rcvd](https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#item_whitelist_from_rcvd_addr_40lists_2esourceforge_2en) ---
**Author:** ![stefan1959](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@stefan1959](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/stefan1959)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/4 "2024-11-09T14:41:45Z")
I found it very easy for find that info, its called google. ---
**Author:** ![shoulders](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/shoulders/32/10086_2.png) [@shoulders](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/shoulders)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/5 "2024-11-09T19:08:00Z")
The link you found was easy, and end user will not be able to do what I did. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/6 "2024-11-09T19:16:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![shoulders](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/shoulders/32/10086_2.png) [@shoulders](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/shoulders)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/7 "2024-11-09T19:28:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd96d761e326db4b2bef94886a639109bd7a8e76.svg) [@system](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/spam-assassain-options-can-someone-explain-why-there-are-options-to-class-senders-as-spam/130326/8 "2025-01-08T19:28:16Z")
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