On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:36 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:24, Mark Haney wrote: > > I typically get a couple hundred messages in my Inbox every morning at > > work. I upgraded to FC3 yesterday and didn't notice this issue, but > > pulling my messages down with spamassassin running is KILLING my speed. > > Is there any way (other than not using spamd) to speed this up a bit? > > If you are using a filter in your email client to run spamassassin you > should run that filter after you have processed mailing list messages. > Just make sure you stop processing your filters after moving the mailing > list messages to another folder. > > This bypasses spamassassin for messages which rarely contain spam and > only uses resources to check those that are more likely to be spam. > > If the bulk of the messages are not from mailing lists but are > legitimate email messages then you are just to popular. :) > > If on the other hand the bulk of these messages are spam and you have > control of the MTA they are being sent to then I recommend you implement > greylisting. This will prevent 95% or more of the spam messages from > ever getting on to your system. One system I implemented greylisting on > was getting 3000 to 6000 spam messages a day, after greylisting it was > getting 4 to 8 spam messages a day. I was seeing the system at times > getting bogged down trying to process all those spam messages through > spamassassin. It almost reached the level of a DOS attack. After > implementing greylisting the problem was resolved. Very few spam get > through and spamassassin has no problem tagging those. > Well I've got greylisting on our Exchange server (yeah I know, I hate it too), but I have spamd checking all incoming mail during checking. I guess I need to get into the guts of spamd and take a look around. > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution. > -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Kernel: 2.6.9-1.667 GNU/Linux 09:54:58 up 1:57, 1 user, load average: 1.66, 1.77, 1.64
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