Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial, alternative?

[Martin Garcia]

Hey there,

I believe receiving 99% of legitimate emails is good,
I dont think is a MailScanner topic, since I believe you can improve 
your email gateway (which I presume you have)
using RBLs, SPF,  greylisting etc. which will drop down the use of 
resources (SA), and even would improve your antispam techniques.

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index  <--- this really 
helped me, so I recommend you to read it.

Regards

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Cualquier duda o consulta estoy a su disposicion.

    Atentamente / Sincerely
 
 
    MARTIN GARCIA
    Consultor Linux y redes
    Nettix Peru EIRL
    telf: +(511)9-9735-4848
    <http://www.nettix.com.pe>
    mailto:mgarcia at nettix.com.pe




> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:59 -0400
> From: "Rick Duval" <rick at duvals.ca>
> Subject: Re: Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial
> 	alternative?
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> 99% of the emails you receive are NOT spam? Holy crap? I wish my servers
> were on your planet ;^)
>
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> 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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