Re: Bayes, possibly other network-dependent rules, intermittently not "working"

On 2025-10-16 at 09:48:23 UTC-0400 (Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:48:23 -0400)
Ricky Boone <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> I'm banging my head over this, but not seeming to find anything that
> stands out to me.
>
> Intermittently... rough estimate being around 1 in 5... I'm seeing
> cases where an instance of SpamAssassin does not appear to use Bayes
> against a message.  I'm suspecting at the times that this is
> happening, it's also having issues with network related
> rules/functions, such as DNSBL checks.  When I check a message
> manually with `spamassassin -D`, Bayes seems to work properly, and in
> some cases I get DNSBL responses that weren't present with the
> original check.

This sounds like what happens *BY DESIGN* when you have 
"shortcircuiting" configured. See 'perldoc 
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit' for details.




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