As someone that is running a large distributed spamassassin installation, I depend on shortcircuit to handle large amounts of mail quickly that does not need scored further. The change in behavior has potential for negative impact that I will have to test carefully before moving to v4.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 3:02 PM Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> wrote: > OK, so then we have really two Choices: > > #1 accept that no code changes are needed, we've fixed a rule(s) we know > might trigger wrong around MISSING HEADERS and we just document the > change in the UPGRADE that shortcircuit may continue to run more meta > rules to finish them out which might not have occurred previously. > > Some users using SHORT CIRCUIT would likely be best to weigh in on this > because we are going to conceivably change the classification of mails > unexpectedly different from 3.4.6 SHORT CIRCUIT behavior. > > #2 Work on the code so that short circuiting or at least the scoring > behaves as with 3.4.6. > > Regards, > KAM > > On 12/4/2022 1:42 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > That's more or less what I was getting at. If there is not a clear > > specification (i.e. the documentation says that it works like X) that > > people can properly rely on, then the pedant in me says that behavior > > changing slightly, but still within the swim lane implied by the > > previous non-spec, is not a bug. > > -- > Kevin A. McGrail > kmcgr...@apache.org > > Member, Apache Software Foundation > Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project > https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 > >
