Use MailScanner and Spamassassin spamd

Res res at ausics.net
Wed Nov 22 00:47:28 GMT 2006


On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Matt Kettler wrote:

> Leah Kubik wrote:
>> I am wondering if it might be possible to run spamd on a server that is
>> running MailScanner and not have major issues?
>

Yep.

> Why? it would be considerably slower.
>
> MailScanner uses SA at the API level (ie: Mail::SpamAssassin), and does so on a
> persistent basis, therefore it acts as it's own spamd. Calling an external
> process would be considerably slower.

I think the issue is so undividual users have preferences, rather than 
putting up with system wide tuff luck settings.



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