https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3109
--- Comment #84 from Amos <[email protected]> 2009-06-10 15:27:56 PST --- Matt: That's all good advice of itself, but the documentation on shortcircuit is explicit: Shortcircuit "on" is supposed to have the behavior you describe. Shortcircuit "spam" or "ham" is supposed to have the different behavior of also forcing a pre-set (very high or very low) score. The plugin is not complying with the documentation -- see, e.g., http://oldschoolpunx.net/phpMan.php/man/Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit -- which I think constitutes a bug in and of itself. It also constitutes a bug in another way: the default spamassassin rules set BAYES_99 to 3.4 (or whatever), shortcircuit=spam, and threshold=5. So if someone turns shortcircuit on without changing the defaults, then it causes anything that hits BAYES_99 to be treated as HAM without exception -- the opposite of the intended behavior. Also, at least on my system, I can tolerate a non-zero false-positive rate, because I'm not deleting spam automatically, just routing it to a folder. So the default setting, shortcircuit BAYES_99 spam, is actually the behavior I want. To sum-up: All the points you made are good ones, but there is still a real bug here, I think. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.
