as the subject line indicates i m sure these are stupid questions but i m having trouble getting sa working like i understand it should work and have about given up on trying to figure it out myself if a user has a line like whitelist_from URL in his spamassassin user_prefs file does that line not in effect tell the program to take no action at all against any mail coming in from URL or is there still checking being done against it and if the latter what does he need to place in user_prefs to cause such mail to be ignored i m testing sa here with a few users who happen to be on yahoogroups lists before deploying it system wide and although the above line has been added to their user_prefs files much of their list mail is still going to the spam folder due to all the usual things you would expect to trigger sa thanks in advance for any help ken scott admin URL this URL email is sponsored by osdn tired of that same old cell phone get a new here for free URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 