On Sunday 14 March 2004 15:50, 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? > > Cheers, > > Scott > > PS I set things up by following the instructions at: > > http://www.atlantawebhost.com/articles/evolution_spamassassin.php Does it make much of a difference when you specify -L as a parameter?: -L, --local Perform only local tests on all mail. In other words, skip DNS and other network tests. Works the same as the "-L" flag to spamassas- sin(1). Regards, Mike Klinke