On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 14:28, Steven Stern wrote: > According to the log, it's taking SA 3 seconds to process a 6K message from > this list. All external stuff for SA is disabled. Is this normal? > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf > > required_hits 5.0 > use_bayes 1 > auto_learn 1 > skip_rbl_checks 0 > use_razor2 0 > use_dcc 0 > use_pyzor 0 First it looks like you have rbl checks enabled. Need to set to 1 to skip them. :) On our main email sever I see spamassassin taking anywhere from .1 to 15 seconds to scan emails. This was getting to be quite a load at times as we have been averaging something like 200+ spam messages an hour in recent weeks. But this morning I implemented greylisting which looks like it will cut the spam by 90% or better. Highly recommended if you are fighting this problem. Appears to reduce the load on the server significantly. There were times when I would see loadaverages in the 20+ range. After implementing greylisting I don't think the loadaverage has gone above 1 or 2 at most. I also recommend a number of the SARE rule sets. Check them out if you have not already. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Chemistry is applied theology. -- Augustus Stanley Owsley III
