Shortcircuit

This plugin is recommended for advanced administrators only.

This plugin implements simple, test-based shortcircuiting. Shortcircuiting a test will force all other pending rules to be skipped, if that test is hit (saving on CPU usage). In addition, a symbolic rule, SHORTCIRCUIT, will fire.

How it works

Recommended usage is to use priority to set rules with strong S/O values (ie. 1.0) to be run first, and make instant spam or ham classification based on that.

To override a test that uses shortcircuiting, you can set the classification type to off. Note that DNS and other network lookups are launched when SA reaches priority -100. If you want to shortcircuit scanning before any network queries are sent, you need to set lower than -100 priority to any such rule, like -200 as in the examples below. Shortcircuited test will be automatically set to priority -200, but only if the original priority is unchanged at default 0.

Format

SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME {spam|ham|on|off}

spam - Shortcircuit the rule using a set of defaults; override the default score of this rule with the score from shortcircuit_spam_score, set the noautolearn tflag, and set priority to -200.
ham - Shortcircuit the rule using a set of defaults; override the default score of this rule with the score from shortcircuit_ham_score, set the noautolearn and nice tflags, and set priority to -200.
on - Shortcircuits the rest of the tests, but does not make a strict classification of spam or ham. Rather, it uses the default score for the rule being shortcircuited.
off - Disables shortcircuiting on said rule.

Examples

If you have taken the time to correctly specify your Warden -> Settings -> Anti-spam Settings -> Network Settings -> Trusted networks you could shortcircuit the ALL_TRUSTED rule so that mail from the trusted_networks is shortcircuited. Go to Warden -> Settings -> Plugin Settings -> Shortcircuit and set Shortcircuit to:

ALL_TRUSTED on

If you have a very well-trained accurate Bayes database you could shortcircuit the BAYES_99 rule or BAYES_00 so that mail that Bayes thought was spam or ham is shortcircuited. Go to Warden -> Settings -> Plugin Settings -> Shortcircuit and set Shortcircuit to:

BAYES_99 spam
BAYES_00 ham

Tags

The Shortcircuit plugin adds the following tags that are available for use in reports, header fields, and other plugins:

Related Pages

• Shortcircuit Settings