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I also run spamassassin (daemon mode) on my desktop system (much better 
hardware:  Athlon XP2700+, 512 MB Ram vs Celery 366 and 256 MB Ram in my 
laptop, for instance) and even though my desktop is stuck with a dialup it 
still processes emails in one second or less - using bayes and the same 
rules.  My laptop uses an ethernet connection and takes no less than 20 
seconds per message.  The main difference between the systems with regards to 
spamassassin is that the laptop has had a lot more sa-learn data applied.  I 
use the laptop to acquire the vast bulk of my emails so it has had more 
opportunity to learn spam.  

As your reply did help out a bit with my understanding of the checks, I 
altered my rbl check to 5 instead of 10.   

I would consider no more than about 2 or 3 seconds per messages the max, given 
what it does to the usability of kmail. 

In any case, concomittent to sending the first message, I altered my filter 
list so that list mails are before spam analysis (using kmail).  The expert 
list is good about not receiving spam in it but other lists I am a member of 
get spam posted fairly regularly so I have been passing all messages through 
spamd to hit them.

The main problem with the long processing times is that kmail is entirely 
unusable while the check is ongoing.  You cannot even write an email because 
the entire app is is limbo while the spam analysis (per message) goes on.  If 
it didn't hang kmail for the length of time the spam check was ongoing I 
wouldn't mind as much as I could read emails that made it through and 
send/queue messages for sending but as it is...

praedor

On Monday 06 October 2003 10:42 am, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Monday 06 October 2003 10:41 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > I have fiddled some with my spamassassin but it is still just too slow. 
> > I am running it in daemon mode (spamd and spamc) with bayes filtering on.
> > Spamassassin email analysis on my laptop is too slow to live with (about
> > 20 seconds per message).  Several questions with the first: How do I add
> > a mailing list like this one to my whitelist? The whitelist appears setup
> > to deal with "from" addresses, not "to" addresses.  Since all list mail
> > is "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or some other variation of this, I
> > can't see how to setup my whitelist for this.
>
> A lot of this depends on what you consider "slow".  My own setup takes
> about 40-60 seconds per message for filtering, I figure a lot of that is
> from the RBL checking, I use RBL lists extensively and some of them are a
> little slow to respond to queries.
>
> One suggestion, if you know that you want to whitelist mailing list
> messages, why send them through spamassassin at all?  Simply setup a
> procmail recipe to put those messages directly in your spool, that way, you
> don't waste time doing header and body checks on messages that you would
> have whitelisted to reduce the score of those checks on anyway.  In short,
> why do the checks if your whitelisting score will reduce the score to the
> point that the checks are superfluous?
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