difference between checking and processing?

HI, Can someone explain or point me to a documentation about the difference between checking and processing a message? The two methods are available as you can see in the code here:

Re: checking and processing scores different

Hi, sorry for taking so long to come back with the headers, but here they are finally: http://pastebin.org/192054 Does this help? Thanks for your help Raphaël On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: Raphael Bauduin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to help someone

checking and processing scores different

Hi, I'm trying to help someone using Exim with the Debian packaged spamassassin 3.2.5-2 and sa-exim 4.2.1-11 I've looked for information on how a mail is processed precisely but didn't find any explanation of the following. In the spamd logs, I see that each mail is processed 2 times: one