Spam Assassin Speed

Mike Klinke lsomike at futzin.com
Sun Mar 14 22:04:20 UTC 2004


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






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