Speeding up Spam Assassin

[jim ruxton]

Hi,

> Hi Jim.  Spamc/spamd uses the same ruleset as the spamassassin perl script
> by default.  I think this is unnecessary duplication. 
Strange thing is spamassassin does catch the odd spam that spamc misses.
I'm not sure why this is. Is it typical for spamc to take so long to
analyze a message. Sometimes it even takes up to 30 seconds.
jim
>  Of course
> spamc/spamd could be configured differently to spamassassin but that
> really would be unnecessary complexity in most cases.
> 
> > anything spamc misses. It takes about 10-15 seconds per message
> > sometimes for spamc to determine whether a message is spam. Any
> > suggestions how I can speed this up?
> 
> Ordinarily I'd recommend spamc/spamd over spamassassin as they are so much
> faster but you are already using using spamc/spamd.
> 
> So I'd say drop spamassaassin as a follow-up to spamc/spamd.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Rob

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