On Sunday 14 March 2004 01:50 pm, J. Scott Amort wrote: > 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? > Scott, I use SpamAssassin as a filter in procmail. I pre-filter all of the mailing list messages into the appropriate mbox file, and only mail that gets through is checked by SpamAssasin. Even though I get hundreds of mails a day, only a few (about 10 or 20) are heading for my inbox and get checked by SpamAssassin. -- Jonathan Gardner jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
