>-----Original Message----- >From: John Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:13 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Spamd and clean mail > > >On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:45, Richard Humphrey wrote: >> I am running SA 2.63 on RH9 server. Dual Xeon 2.6 CPU, Raid5 >2.5GB RAM >> IBM X335 series server. I was doing some poking around and >noticed in my >> logs that clean messages are taking on average 32.5 seconds, >but spams >> are identfied in 3 seconds or so. Funny thing is, if I run >spamd -D the >> clean messages are found in 0.5 seconds. Am I missing the >obvious here >> or is something wrong. My /etc/init.d/spamasassin script >starts spamd as >> follows. >> >> SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m10 -H -x -u nobody" >> >> 1) Why is it taking so long to validate a clean mail? >> 2) Why does running spamd -D from command line show to validate it in >> 0.5 seconds versus 30 or so when running from >/etc/init.d/spamassassin >> script? > >Can't answer that, but I have found other spamd oddities >that have driven me away from it back to just invoking >spamassassin. (I have the cycles and don't have the volume, >so it all works out.) > >I found that certain things didn't work, such as any of my >special rules in >any file except local.cf, razor2, surbl, etc. > >On a hunch, i changed my procmailrc to call spamassassin >direct and everything started working like i expected. > >I've come to believe spamd is evil. ;-) >
Sounds like a permissions problem. spamd is so white, it should be a member of the jedi council! --Chris
