Spam Assassin Speed

[John Thompson]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:50:59 -0800
"J. Scott Amort" <jsamort at shaw.ca> wrote:


> 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?

I run spamassassin on a separate machine: a dual PII-400 running
FreeBSD...


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-John (JohnThompson at new.rr.com)