I've an idea I have set up spamassassin wrongly on my desktop,
as there is now a long delay when I start my mail-reader
(kmail under Fedora 5) -
kmail reports that it is "initialising",
and then the indicator at the bottom of the page
goes slowly from 0% to 100%.
I get mail from 2 sources:
uucp mail arrives in /var/spool/mail/<user>
and POP3 mail from gmail and other places.
I've never been clear how procmail and spams/spamd actually work -
in particular where exactly they intercept mail.
At the end of my .procmailrc I have
# SpamAssassin our way through
:0fw
| spamc
In the kmail settings all my mail sources are set to be checked regularly -
at intervals of 5-30 minutes,
but it seems as though this does not have the desired effect,
or maybe it only has an effect while kmail is running?
I see the following spam-related programs are running on my desktop:
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[tim@alfred ~]$ ps aux | grep spam
root 19986 0.0 5.6 30844 21820 ? Ss Sep13
0:15 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid
sa-milt 10900 0.0 0.1 4396 460 ? S Sep17
:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/spamass-milter-wrapper -p /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock -P /var/run/spamass-milter.pid
sa-milt 10901 0.0 0.2 11080 1052 ? Sl Sep17
:00 /usr/sbin/spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock -P /var/run/spamass-milter.pid
root 17258 0.1 8.8 40476 34136 ? S Sep19 1:36 spamd child
root 20461 0.0 6.7 32828 26112 ? S 13:40 0:02 spamd child
tim 20862 0.0 0.1 3908 652 pts/8 R+ 14:58 0:00 grep spam
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Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
