Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial alternative?

[Rick Duval]

99% of the emails you receive are NOT spam? Holy crap? I wish my servers
were on your planet ;^)



On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Charlie <mi6 at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> 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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