On 5 Mar 2002, Craig Hughes wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 09:35, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Yevgeniy Miretskiy wrote:
> >
> > > The question is: why do I need to run all tests if I'm running spamassassin with 
>-L flag?
>
> > > Again, sorry if this topic was beaten to death before...
>
> > The problem is that some of the scores are negative, not positive.
> >
> > However a way around this has just occured to me:
> >
> > 1. Run all negatively scoring tests.
> >
> > 2. Run positively scoring tests in highest-score first order.
> >
> > 3. Stop when we hit the threshold.
>
> Matt, take a look at bugzilla #62 -- there is more discussion of exactly
> this there.  If you re-order the rules, then the only problem with
> short-circuit scoring is razor submission.  If "-L" is used though, this
> is irrelevant, you can just exit when the threshold is exceeded.  It
> would probably be good to indicate that score evaluation was
> short-circuited in some header or other (probably just tack on the
> X-Spam-Status) so people don't get confused.  Also, you'll want to make
> sure none of the "make test" stuff needs adjusting for the new scores
> some of the mails will get.

OK, all implemented and checked in (along with the other stuff (conf ||=,
and subject in body). Please test CVS anyone who's interested in this.

-- 
Matt.
<:->get a SMart net</:->


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