Could you give me an idea about the order of processing for the following, or indicate which ones might be run according to where they lie in the Global.cfg?
This will of course make a difference in performance, and I would like to provide good guidance myself as I comment up my filters for sharing with others. The types that I can come up with off the top of my head are as follows
- ipblacklist - fromblacklist - ipfile - fromfile - spamdomains - filter
The very general order is that IP-based spam tests come first, and everything else is done later. You could try looking through debug log file entries to try to get a better understanding of the order the tests are run in. That is something that we do not keep track of, as the tests are not all run at the same time (meaning that other code runs between tests as needed).
Also, if it's not that big of a deal in modifying the programming, would it be possible to add SKIPIFWEIGHT functionality to the non-filter types?
That would start to get tricky. It works for the filters because each filter has many lines determining what should get caught. Some other tests do this (such as the sender blacklists), but other tests do not. Those that do would require a change in the way the files work (the sender blacklist just lists E-mail addresses or domains, and doesn't contain any commands). It's possible that we may work on this, but it would take a while (as we would have to add code for each test).
-Scott
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