SpamAssassin currently (v2.11) performs all tests on each message, even when it's clear early on that a message will be classified as spam. Some tests (most notably the network tests) are quite slow. A single message can take 20-30 seconds to process with the network tests enabled, as opposed to ~3 seconds without, and most of the time the network tests aren't necessary.
Comments in the source make it clear that the decision to run all tests is deliberate, so that action can be taken on messages whose score reach some other threshold, but I think there should be a way to specify a max_score threshold, past which no tests are performed. If someone wants to take special action on messages that score 40 can set max_score to 40, while those who only want to test for spam can leave it low. I think it would be reasonable to have it default to be the same as the spam score target, since there's no default special action above that. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
