've had a look on my log files generated by spamassassin and half of the rules found in 50_scores.fr are almost never used.
So ofr all these rules I've had a score the_rule 0 In my local.cf. The file local.cf is used by spamassassin.
My question:
-When a score of 0 is put. The rule is really bypassed by spamassassin ?
-Such thing is effective for performance ? I didn't notice a
difference. My amavisd processes have same size (50 Mo in memory) and
process time seem to be the same.
Yes, the score 0 rules really are bypassed. However, removing a few rules from the ruleset will not significantly impact SA's size. You really need to add/remove a significant volume of rules to impact SA's running by more than 1MB. Bigger factors for most folks are bayes and awl database sizes.
