http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3808
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-09-25 10:35 ------- Not for nothing, but I tend to disagree. Parsing syslog documents with something trying to do statistics is a nightmare for two reasons. 1) Log files rotate. 2) Maintaining state within the file is impossible with a periodic process. It requires a full-time running one, via a pipe or a fifo (in addition to however many spamd processes I'm already running, plus syslogd, plus the spamc processes.) I could add the code to my local SpamAssassin code myself, and release it as an "unofficial patch", and I think if I stuck it up on the Wiki, others would use it, but I'd much rather see it just become a normal part of the program. Especially because patching is daunting to some people, especially with a .0 release, where they'll blame the patch at any sign of trouble. I can't release this as a third-party-plugin because the architecture isn't there yet. One thing is clear, however:I certainly think watching three or four extra integer values in a script and periodically writing them out to a file that one can simply cat with mrtg/rrdtool is DEFINITELY going to be less of a performance impact than a whole new "plugin" architecture. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
