On (21/07/05 16:21), Chris Bannister wrote: > Ok. I have downloaded exim4-daemon-heavy, spamassassin, spamc > > And have been playing around. I set up mutt using the example in the > spamassassin package, + procmail with spamc entries > > and when I hit R (macro index R "!/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync") my poor > laptop (133Mhz 49M -- don't laugh I got it as a 'brick' for $12.00 NZD) > almost died, killed postgres, a vim session I didn't realise I had open > and 2 bash shells. :-( > > I sent a local email as a test and spamd had a fit for about 10sec. I > downloaded 6 emails via fetcmail from my isp and the harddisk had a fit > for about 20mins!! I hate to think what would happen if I d/l 200 > messages, which is about normal for a day. > > I will happily purge them now. I didn't even get to feed a spam through :-( > > But I will look at some lightweight altenatives, if there is such a > thing.
I seem to recall trying to set up spamassassin and clamav on a dual 450-Mhz G4 some time ago and suffered a similar treacle like experience. I abandoned it because I didn't have time to investigate. I returned to it when I acquired a 64bit laptop and no performance degradation seemed to occur, which in spite of the difference in speed and power, led me to think I must have misconfigured something in first setup in some way. Having enjoyed success with the laptop, I set up the IMAP server with the same setup on a 1000Mhz P4 machine (nothing special circa. 5/6 years old I guess) and it doesn't seem to be suffering slowdown when scanning mail. My recollection, from the first experience was that it was after I set up clamav that the symptoms occurred but I could be wrong. FWIW, the server is processing several hundred mails a day without a problem but I wouldn't suggest it's under any great load. I may have to see what parameters can be tuned should volumes increase. I read somewhere recently that exim4-heavy is unnecessary if you run sa-exim but haven't checked it out. Perhaps you should look at mailfilter which I used with some success a while ago. It requires more maintenance because you have to manually create the filters but I found it useful during the spate SWEN garbage coming from the list. Sorry not to be of more help Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
