Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial alternative?

[Julian Field]

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My advice would be to run
MailScanner --debug --debug-sa
as that will print out all the progress of SpamAssassin, including a 
timestamp at the start of each line so you can see where the holdups are.
If you do that, and then show us where the holdups are, we may be able 
to help you some more...

Jules.

Charlie wrote:
> Hi,
> I run an email server (Exim) which uses Mailscanner in combination 
> with ClamAV and SpamAssassin. The server scans about 15,000 emails per 
> day. SpamAssassin currently seems to take 5-10 seconds to scan even 
> the smallest email, which is unacceptable for us.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had either any tips on reducing the amount 
> of time taken to scan an email for spam using SpamAssassin to 'well 
> under one second', or if anyone can recommend a good, not too 
> expensive, commercial alternative to SpamAssassin.
>
> Thank you!
> Charlie

Jules

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