Beta 4.50.4 released -- faster than 4.49

[Julian Field]

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Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:

> Hi Julian,
>
>> We have implemented some more speedups since version 4.49, which was 
>> already faster than 4.48. It depends on the nature of the spam you 
>> get, and the quantity of viruses that you get.
>>
>> The more dumb spam, and viruses, that you get, the faster it will go.
>>
>> Note that
>> 1) you must use ./install.sh to install it as there are 2 more Perl 
>> modules required by (and provided with) this version, and
>> 2) you must run upgrade_MailScanner_conf to add new configuration 
>> settings to your MailScanner.conf file.
>>
>> I would be very interested to hear what speedups you see from this 
>> new faster version.
>
>
> # The SpamAssassin cache uses a database file which needs to be writable
> # by the MailScanner "Run As User". This file will be created and 
> setup for
> # you automatically when MailScanner is started.
> SpamAssassin Cache Database File = 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
>
> Can you tell a littme more about this?
>
> What is stored, will the database be auto pruned? Or does it grow till 
> my disk fills :)

It will auto-prune, don't worry.
It looks at the message body to see if it has seen this message before. 
If it has, it grabs all the SpamAssassin results out of a cache and 
doesn't call SpamAssassin at all for this message.

> I am really interested in this since we use rcpts splitting, on what 
> base you say its a identical message?

You should see a very dramatic speed improvement on messages with 
multiple recipients.

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