MS + SA = Slow for some reason

[mikea]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:03:52PM -0400, Kris Zabriskie wrote:
> I am having some serious performance issues with MailScanner and
> SpamAssassin.  MailScanner runs just great!  Then I added SpamAssassin and
> it is taking 10 messages to run through both of them, roughly 2 hours.  I
> thought it might have been because I added more tests to the
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf file, but have since changed the configuration back
> to the original configuration and it is still taking a long time.  Is it
> possible to get someone's spam.assassin.prefs.conf file that seems to be
> working well for them?  Thanks again!

That _can_ be an indication that one or more of the DNSbls is being
very slow to respond, or isn't responding at all. You might want to
check that.

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Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964