>That is good advice. I also recommend, if possible, skipping >spamassassin processing on most mailing lists. I have found very >little >spam on these lists. In my current setup at home I use the filter in >evolution to invoke spamassassin. That filter is after my other >filters >which move mailing list messages to different folders. So only stuff >that has a high probability of being spam invokes spamassassin. Prior >to doing that downloading email was very slow since spamassassin was >called on everything. > >-- >Scot L. Harris >webid@xxxxxxxxxx Hi guys, Thanks for all this. It sounds like I should have only 1 spamd, not 5, with 1 account, but probably I should take that up on the evolution lists. In the meantime I'll just try switching it off. Multiple filtering could be done to save time/cpu, but it is memory that is my problem. Bill