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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