Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial alternative?

[Martin.Hepworth]

Charlie

That's an MTA setup issue.....not mailscanner!

Have you got a gateway machine ot you running mailscanner on the mailserver

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Charlie
> Sent: 18 June 2008 14:57
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial
> alternative?
>
> Thanks for all the replies. In response to some of them:
>
> - we have now installed nscd, so output is now:
> # /etc/init.d/nscd status
> Status of Name Service Cache Daemon service: running
>
> - we have added 2 more MS children
> - we'll look into adding more RAM
>
> > 2-5 seconds per batch is pretty fast. Anything under 1 minute is
> > acceptable IMHO.
> > Why the concern about scan times?? Email isn't IM :-).
> Seriously why
> > the concern about scan times?
>
> The concern is that I am eventually looking to have over
> 10,000 users, so will be receiving, and then sending,
> multiple emails per second.
> Even now, with only 1,500 users, people have started
> reporting "Too many concurrent SMTP connections; Please try
> again later"
> They only started seeing this message after I turned on
> SpamAssassin. I am thinking that perhaps, as 99% of the
> emails we receive are not spam, that scanning for spam may be
> an unnecessary luxury, once email volumes reach a certain level.
>
>
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