Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial alternative?

[Scott Silva]

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>  >If it is a load problem you should try to reduce the amount of mail
>  >reaching SpamAssassin in the first place. RBLs come to mind. Or (since
>  >you asked for a commercial solution) have a look at BarricadeMX from
>  >FSL. BMX will greatly reduce the amount of mail reaching your MTA.
> Our userbase means that over 99% of emails sent through the server are 
> *not* spam, so any limiting of the emails reaching the MTA would not help.
> 
So if 99% of your mail isn't spam, then why bother using spamassassin?
I would dare to say that 65 - 75% of the mail that "attempts" delivery here IS 
spam. Some days it is over 90%, especially on the weekends when we get very 
little legit mail.



>  >Yet on the other hand, if the 15.000 mails a day that your server scans
>  >are mostly ham, this will not help. So please enlarge a bit on the
>  >problem itself.
> 


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