Speeding up Spam Assassin

[Terry Tanski]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:

> I just checked and spamd seems to be taking about 0.4sec to assess
> messages as clean here.  This is a powerful box that is underloaded
> though.  What are the specs of your mail server?

You can get SA to tell you where it is bogging down. Add the following
to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:

timelog_path /var/tmp

and restart SA. Send a message through and then examine the SA logfile 
in /var/tmp. I bet the rbl checks are slowing things down. If that is 
the case, does adding the the following to 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf speed things up?

skip_rbl_checks 1

Hope this sends your investigation in the right direction.

Terry

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