That sounds good. I noticed that Debian sets up the spamd daemon to run as root. Is there any reason to run the daemon as a non-root user on a standalone system (assuming the firewall is set up correctly)? The README.spamd.gz file talks about this
Tony On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:42:06PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:33:21PM -0500, Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo wrote: > > I have begun using spamassassin (2.01) with razor (1.19) as a mailfilter > > in combination with fetchmail (5.9.8), procmail (3.2.2), and exim (3.3.4). > > When I fetch a large number of messages (e.g. when I first startup the > > computer), response slows to a crawl. If I monitor the processes using > > top, spamassassin processes start to fill the screen. On a > <snip> > > You should consider running spamassassin as a daemon (spamd). This > should greatly reduce the processing time, as well as the resource > hoggery. > > Edit /etc/default/spamassassin, run /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart, > and have your procmail recipe use /usr/bin/spamc -f > > You'll probably want to firewall out tcp port 783 to prevent people from > hitting your new spamd. > > Hope this helps, > Chris Hilts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
