SpamAssassin and Virus delays

[Julian Field]

At 22:11 16/10/2002, you wrote:
>We are looking to upgrade, but are hesitant about alpha code on
>production systems.  I'd still have to hack it for Symantec, anyway.

My aim is to get V4 out to you folks by the end of the weekend. I'm not
promising anything, but that's my current plan. I've updated the docs for
all the V4 configuration options (5,400 words for conf.shtml alone! That
was thrilling job...)


>On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:55, Mike Kercher wrote:
> > I think Julian said V4 is about 4x faster than V3.x  I run it on a
> > production server and LUV it!
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Thomas DuVally
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:24 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: SpamAssassin and Virus delays
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've recently put in MailScanner V3.22-14.  We've been humming along
> > until we see peak times.  While delivery is fast, scanning is slow. Then
> > we start seeing large delays (30+min).
> >
> > We were receiving over 7500 messages per hour, and were able to scan
> > only up to 5200 in that same hour.
> >
> > To copy we turned off SpamAssassin and scanning of text messages.  This
> > helped out a lot!
> >
> > I want to be able to turn on at least SpamAssassin again, but are there
> > any tweaks I can use to help speak things up?
> >
> > Oh, one other thing, I'm using Symantec Carrier Scanner on Unix to scan,
> > which I had to hack support for.  It can scan about 3 file a second
> > (theoretically 10800 an hour)
> >
> > Any help?
> >
> > Will v4 be able help?
> > --
> > Thomas DuVally <thomas_duvally at brown.edu>
> > Brown University
>--
>Thomas DuVally <thomas_duvally at brown.edu>
>Brown University

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