----- Original Message ----- >Paolo De Marco wrote: >> Hi. >> There is a way to stop tests when the score of the mail is higher then >> a value? >> >Not in a general sense, but there is a shortcircuit plugin that can be >used to stop checking when a particular rule hits. >You can also use the rule priority to cause the trusted shortcircuit >rules to run before the rest of the ruleset. > >see: > >http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Plugin_Shortcircuit.html > > >The primary problem with doing this at a score threshold is you never >know if a large negative-scoring rule is going to come by and drive the >score way down. (ie: USER_IN_WHITELIST). So, if you were to stop scoring >at 30 points, you might stop checking a message that is supposed to be >whitelisted, if it managed to score 30 points before the whitelist rule >matched... It's generally a recipe for mistakes, which is why this >feature was removed from SA somewhere around SA 2.3x several years ago..
Couldn't a whitelist shortcircut option be added? What I mean is a feature that allows an admin to direct SA to check the whitelist/blacklist first and then (if enabled) abandon further testing if sender is listed. ================================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 562-2131 local 5448 My Blog: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel My File share: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/users/gagel ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------
