MCP Efficiency?

[Glenn Steen]

On 18/08/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Sorry, just checked the code. I am doing that already.
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> The cause of the problem is that SpamAssassin does not appear to support
> the way I am trying to use it. I want 2 completely separate instances of
> SpamAssassin. One has all the normal SA rules as expected. The other one
> has no rules or dns checks or Razor or anything at all, it *only* has
> the few rules specified for MCP checking.
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> I can't make it do this, while still keeping all the rules compiled in
> both instances and every setup done and cached. The only thing I can
> make it do to run the way I want, is to tell it not to pre-compile all
> the rules. As a result it has to do a huge load of SA compilation for
> every message.
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> If Matt Kettler is around, maybe he could offer me some advice. I have
> tried asking on the SA list several times, and they don't understand why
> I would want my 2nd instance at all, so I never got any helpful answers.
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This is exactly what I suspected from the few trials I did recently
(was thinking of starting to use MCP). And that is where I got the
idea to set dns as unavailable. Helps some, but not all.

The problems lie solidly in the built-in defaults that you cannot override.
What I think you have to do is to maintain a "cleaned" SA environment,
and see to it that MCP uses it by way of a chroot thingie. Really
icky:-(.

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