On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > However, bugs.debian.org is targeted by much spam, and has quite > strict spam filtering. This causes some delays in email processing. [...] > Would it be possible to have a "fast lane" for mails that are clearly > not spam? Such as PGP signed mail or mail that has debbugs control > commands?
Messages that are signed, have things that look like valid control commands, etc. are all scored very quickly and usually short-circuit spam assassin. The delays (if any) should be very short, on the order of under 3 minutes. On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The reassign request I sent at 08:15 local time finally reached > debbugs about 14:00 local time, but which time another request by > another user had just made the same change. That's almost six hours of > waiting time for me. Could you send me the message-id of the message which was delayed? Even if you had hit postgrey, and it was tempfailed, it should have only been delayed by about 5-10 minutes. Usually longer delays indicate that there is some kind of mail misconfiguration or queuing issue. > If I had time for it to implement one, I'd offer to write an HTTP API, > with authentication, which would interact directly with the debbugs > data structures (database) bypassing the entire mail stack. I'm actually planning on writing such a thing, but it'll use part of the mail stack as a queue to process the changes with the appropriate locks and everything. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society"; 1964
