* Naitik Shah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031007 14:29]: > I've got procmail piping mail through spamassassin (about that, is it > better to use spamc? ).
Yes, spamc will lighten the load on your server as compared to running spamassassin on each message individually. spamc is a small C program that just pipes the message to an already-running spamd process. spamassassin (and spamd) run in perl. Starting up perl is a lot more costly than running spamc. Since this cost is multiplied by the number of inbound mails you want to check, small savings add up quickly. If it's just being run on your desktop by just you, you might not notice the difference. But if you're setting up a mail server with multiple users, each receiving (and scanning) mail, it's definitely worthwhile to run spamd and encourage your users to use spamc instead of spamassassin (or maybe even make spamassassin a wrapper that invokes spamc instead). good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. -- President Thomas Jefferson
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