SpamAssassin Efficiency

[Julian Field]

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On 6 Oct 2005, at 16:27, Rob Poe wrote:

> Running Spamassassin with MailScanner.  As I use more rulesets,  
> during busy / peak mail server periods, SpamAssassin is timing out  
> and the spam message makes it through.
>
> I'd rather default the box to WAIT for SpamAssassin, even if that  
> means backing up email a little bit.  Hopefully I'll be able to  
> replace the box soon (it's a 2.0ghz celeron / 1g ram) with a dual  
> 2.8 xeon / 3 gigs ram / hardware RAID5 (instead of software  
> raid1)..But for now I have to use what I have..
>
> Any suggestions?

Why not just increase the SpamAssassin timeout value in  
MailScanner.conf?
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