Hi All,
After reading through a few threads on Spam Assassin, and given a recent increase in the amount of spam arriving in my inbox, I thought I would give it a whirl. It is, however, terribly slow. I belong to several mailing lists, and receive anywhere from 300-500 emails a day. It seems to take Spam Assassin 20-30 seconds or so to process each email! Is this usual? I have tried both the spamassassin -e and spamc approaches to creating an evolution filter, but it made no difference in speed either way. Any tips for speeding things up?
Cheers,
Scott
PS I set things up by following the instructions at:
http://www.atlantawebhost.com/articles/evolution_spamassassin.php
Try running spamassassin in "daemon" mode - i.e. as spamd. Then filter your messages using spamc. You can run spamd as part of the normal system startup.
The actual spamassassin code is all written in Perl and the startup overhead is pretty large. When run as spamd you don't have to reload and interpret the Perl for every message.
-- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
