On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 02:45 +0100, Lee wrote: > I've yet to grasp the purpose of SpamC and/or SpamD on Windows in my > kind of scenario. I've seen mention of them a lot in my web searches, > but all I think I have yet grasped is that SpamC makes the mail > filtering faster due to a multi threaded approach at calling SA. Have I > got that right? > The main benefit for low volume (personal) mail is that using spamc/spamd avoids the considerable start/stop times of vanilla SA. spamd is a server that starts at boot time and runs until shutdown while raw SA is started and stopped for every message. spamc replaces SA in the message processing chain. All it does is to pass messages to spamd for inspection and tagging. Its a small C program, so it starts and stops very fast.
Martin
