Goran, yes, if you set a HOLD action, the weight is irrelevant in the example you cited. In a more complicated example, you'd have to check the precedence of actions listed in the manual.
Why? Well, you might also have a WHITELIST action, or a WEIGHT action for a high value that does a DELETE. This gets even more complicated (in a good way, though!) if you are also using the short-circuit evaluation techniques in the recent beta/interim builds, e.g. the END, SKIPIFWEIGHT and MAXWEIGHT. Your configuration might include increasing severe actions based on the weight of the message, so you'd definitely want to accrue weight to the new test, but conservatively. Also, I would recommend never using a weight of zero plus an action like HOLD when you are evaluating a test, but you might not agree with my style. Instead, I would recommend using a weight of 1. A weight of zero, even if the test is triggered and an action taken, will make the test NOT show up in the list of tests triggered in your declude log file on the "total weight=" line (at LOGLEVEL MID, anyway). Andrew 8) -----Original Message----- From: Goran Jovanovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Weight and Action Question Hi, If you are trying out a new test and are not sure what it is going to do you set the WEIGHT of that test to 0 and then monitor it. One way would be to use a HOLD action on that test. My question is if the WEIGHT was not set to 0 but say 10 and the action is HOLD will the e-mail be held regardless of the total weight? If that is true then why does it matter what the weight is set to? Am I missing something here? Goran Jovanovic The LAN Shoppe --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
