Spam Assassin Speed

[Justin Mason]

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Mike Klinke writes:
>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).

It should do.  what's the version?  That sounds like a DNS timeout.

- --j.
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