The reason I brought this up was because I've added timings to show how long my
filtering script takes to run and in come cases when the mail is spam it's 6-10
seconds or longer. Is that normal?

Quoting Justin Mason <jm@[...].org> :

>  
>  Robert Nicholson writes:
>  >I've got plugins that are running and if they are positive I really  
>  >don't need to run any more plugins.
>  >
>  >Q. Do all plugins run against a message or can you configure things  
>  >so that one plugin aborts the running of others?
>  >
>  >in my init.pre I have
>  >
>  ># URIDNSBL - look up URLs found in the message against several DNS
>  ># blocklists.
>  >#
>  >loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL
>  >
>  ># Hashcash - perform hashcash verification.
>  >#
>  >loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash
>  >
>  ># SPF - perform SPF verification.
>  >#
>  >loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF
>  >
>  >and my local.cf has
>  >
>  >dcc_home /home/robert/etc/dcc
>  >
>  >loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URICountry
>  >
>  >...
>  >
>  >Is it possible to have a plugin's result stop the running of plugins  
>  >all together?
>  
>  in SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (as yet unreleased), yes, you can use the
>  Shortcircuit plugin to do this.
>  
>  --j.
>  




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