Hello. From: "Gabriel Maria Plutzar / Alpha NetWork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Spamassassin / Spamd speedup Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:26:38 +0100
> Hello ! > > I've an idea to speed up spamassassin / spamd quite a lot: > > Most mails today are spam, and most spam mails hit really many rules, > especially when you do multiple dnsbl checks. On many systems, it doesn't > make sense that a spam mail gets more than a certain amount of points, eg. > mails would be throwed away or flagged anyway, regardless if the mail has 15 > or 40 points. > > So it would be good to define a "maximum mail score" - if defined, scanning > of a mail is aborted after that score is reached. So, for example a system, > which is configured to throw away mails with more than 15 points could stop > doing scan after reaching them, eventually skipping costly rbl checks. > > it would be good negative scored rules whould be examined at first, then non > network based rules, and network based rules at last - breaking up when the > maximum score is reached. > > > Perhaps this idea can find a way into future releases > > Many greetings > Gabriel Maria Plutzar I think that your idea is good for speed up. BTW, I am a 'spam geek'.:-) One of my hobby is checking SA's scoring. Sometimes I'm fascinated by SA's good job. If your idea is realized, I'll feel little sad. Because some of spam's characteristics will be omitted, so it will be a little trouble for totaling characteristics, especially making meta rules. So, I have an another idea. The idea is 'multiple local DNSBLs/URIBLs proxy or cache server'. It's like 'Squid' http proxy server, but runs for DNSBLs/URIBLs. This idea is effective for large site owner, I believe. But this idea is not so effective for personal user, like me. -- Nothing but a peace sign. MATSUDA Yoh-ichi(yoh) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.flcl.org/~yoh/diary/ (only Japanese)
