Re: Thoughts/ramblings on rule short circuiting

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Loren Wilton writes:
> It seems obvious that we want to run that -100 rule first.  If it hits, the
> maximum possible score if *every* other rule hits will be 4, and with a
> threshold of 5, the mail can't be spam.  So we can stop after the -100 rule
> hits, and only run one rule on this mail.

fwiw, this idea is http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3109 ,
which got closed by some overzealous triaging.

I'm fully in favour of it ;)

I would suggest though that it not be a score thing -- or perhaps that we
have "magic" score values as Daniel suggested that indicate "immediate
early exit as ham" / "spam".


- --j.
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