Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-30 Thread Henrik K
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:28:27PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > btw, I think this is already possible using the shortcircuit plugin. > Just use rule priorities to run the non-net rules first, and > shortcircuit if they are sufficient. Currently DNS queries are sent no matter what, but it's fixabl

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-30 Thread Justin Mason
btw, I think this is already possible using the shortcircuit plugin. Just use rule priorities to run the non-net rules first, and shortcircuit if they are sufficient. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 08:05, Henrik K wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:23:00AM -0400, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: >> On 10/

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-30 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 30/10/2010 4:28 AM, Yet Another Ninja wrote: rsync? to check mail? Hrm, not a bad idea for the basis of a bayesian filter. Daryl

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-30 Thread RW
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:28:09 +0200 Yet Another Ninja wrote: > On 2010-10-30 9:56, RW wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:23:00 -0400 > > dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > > > > > >> But the total amount of bandwidth and processing time saved on the > >> internet from not running unnecessary tests o

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-30 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 2010-10-30 9:56, RW wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:23:00 -0400 dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: But the total amount of bandwidth and processing time saved on the internet from not running unnecessary tests on every instance of spamassassin seems worth doing. You are also wasting resources by

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-30 Thread RW
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:23:00 -0400 dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > But the total amount of bandwidth and processing time saved on the > internet from not running unnecessary tests on every instance of > spamassassin seems worth doing. You are also wasting resources by putting the round-trips on

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-30 Thread Henrik K
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:23:00AM -0400, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 10/30, Michael Parker wrote: > > > I'd like to see spamassassin only run network tests when they might > > > affect the outcome. > > > > Why? > > To reduce the network load on my server which is one of the hosts of the >

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Darxus
On 10/30, Michael Parker wrote: > > I'd like to see spamassassin only run network tests when they might > > affect the outcome. > > Why? To reduce the network load on my server which is one of the hosts of the DNSWL.org list? > Assuming a reasonably fast connection network checks are basically f

Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Parker
On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:42 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > I'd like to see spamassassin only run network tests when they might > affect the outcome. Why? Assuming a reasonably fast connection network checks are basically free. They are kicked off at the start of a scan and the results are co

Only running network tests when necessary - feature request

2010-10-29 Thread Darxus
I'd like to see spamassassin only run network tests when they might affect the outcome. For example, if you run all non-network tests, and at that point an email's score qualifies as spam, and then you run all the non-spam network tests (hitting whitelists), and it still qualifies as spam, there's