[Users] Can the use of SpamAssassin result in filtering rules being bypassed?

[Dave Howorth]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 08:56:20 -0400
Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:54:48 -0000 Paul wrote:
> 
> >Hello Pierre,
> >
> >I am not sure that I've followed your description correctly but I
> >can say that the SpamAssassin plugin always runs before any
> >filtering rules.  
> 
> Thanks! Sorry if my message wasn't clear enough; but I now better
> understand how SpamAssassin, by running first can obfuscate many other
> filter results.  It's easy to follow what we expect from our filters;
> but SA can short-circuit those filters...  In my case, I was wanting
> to simply delete certain messages; but SA moved them to my SPAM
> folder before my filter ever saw them. My desire to not have to deal
> with these messages at all was thwarted by SA's action, after which I
> still had to deal with them.

I'm curious. Why do you still have to deal with them if they've been
moved to the spam folder? You were thinking of deleting them, so what's
the problem with them being in the spam folder and just ignoring them
instead? That's kind of exactly what the spam folder is for isn't it? A
dumping ground for unwanted mail. Just delete the oldest stuff every
year or so.