In the past, I have used this shell script to generate a passlist of trusted emails gathered from a user's "sent" Maildir.
#!/bin/sh
SADIR=/home/example.com/home/user/.spamassassin
SENTMAIL="/home/example.com/home/user/.maildir/.Sent Messages/cur/"
touch $SADIR/sent_whitelist
rm -f $SADIR/sent_whitelist
#ls "$SENTMAIL"
for x in `grep -r "^To:" "$SENTMAIL" |
grep -o "[[:alnum:]\.\+\-\_]*@[[:alnum:]\.\-]*" |
tr "A-Z" "a-z" |
sort -u` ;
do echo "whitelist_from $x" >> $SADIR/sent_whitelist
done
cat $SADIR/user_prefs.base $SADIR/sent_whitelist > $SADIR/user_prefs
Why did I do this? To save cycles by avoiding the overhead of spamassassin for trusted senders.
Not a bad idea, eh?