extreamly long delays

[Julian Field]

At 16:32 05/07/2002, you wrote:
> > Do you have any "Spam List" entries or "Spam Domain List" entries? If
>so,
> > try switching spam checking back on, but comment out all the "Spam
>List"
> > and "Spam Domain List" entries. That will leave you just running
> > SpamAssassin, so you'll be able to get a better idea of exactly what
>is
> > running slowly.
>
>Nope, I don't have any "Spam List" or "Spam Domain List" entries, and I
>have also added the skip_rbl_checks 1 line to my
>spam.assassin.prefs.conf file.
>I am not seeing a change as far as speed goes.

Are you using "Compile SpamAssassin Once = yes"? Having that set to no will
nobble the speed quite a bit.

>I did compile spamass-milter and enabled milter in my sendmail.mc file,
>and started it as well as spamd when I load up the QueueOnly copy of
>sendmail.  With this setup, it goes like normal (very fast).  It too
>does not do any rbl checks.  However, I'm not able to get the
>functionality that I would/should be getting by using mailscanner.
>
>The functionality that I would really like to be able to achieve would
>be deleting all high-scoring (15+) spam.  Of course, I would like to
>only use mailscanner, not have to worry about using milter or any
>milter-applications.  However, until I'm able to figure out what's
>causing these very long delays, I'm forced to either do no spam
>checking, or use the milter.
>
>Do you know of a why I could make this happen using spamass-milter?  If
>so, then I'll just use it and be done with it.  This actually might be
>an all around speedier way of doing things.  Maybe a future version of
>MS could suggest using it?  Are there any down sides that I should be
>aware of while using spamass-milter with MS?
>
>Regards,
>Bill Omer

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