Problems calling SpamAssassin

[Youn Gonzales]

Whenever I enable SpamAssassin, MailScanner appears take several seconds per
message to call SpamAssassin and wait for the results. Testing from the
command line produces the same results - calling spamassassin -t takes 3-4
seconds per message while calling spamc only takes about a second. Due to
the volume of mail traffic at our site I had to disable SpamAssassin in
mailscanner.conf as our incoming mail queue reached about 56,000 messages
fairly quickly.

Is there a way to have MailScanner call spamd and/or would it be possible to
have MailScanner create up to x processess for SpamAssassin? If not, is
there a way I can run SpamAssassin separate from MailScanner? (remember, our
mail server is a relay, or secondary, server that processes mail for lots of
different domains and mail is routed from it to the real mail servers using
sendmail's mailtertable feature)

Thanks in advance!

:-)


Youn Gonzales
System Administrator
Comptia A+, Network+, INET+,
Cisco CCNA/CCDA Certified Technician
Microsoft Certified Professional