Re: spamd and plugins

2007-09-19 Thread Mark Martinec
jonathan, > so given that amavisd is already daemonized... does this suggest that > there would be minimal gains in moving to spamd called from postfix? Yes, practically no difference in throughput, possibly even some loss in throughput due to spamc/spamd being invoked once per recipient, and ama

Re: spamd and plugins

2007-08-31 Thread jonathan
Matthias Leisi wrote: Amavisd does not use the spamassassin command line binary, but: - --- cut --- package Amavis::SpamControl; [..] use Mail::SpamAssassin; - --- cut --- In the logfile of amavisd, you'll also see something like: | Aug 30 20:26:11 amavis[27896]: Module Mail::SpamAssassin 3

Re: spamd and plugins

2007-08-30 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jonathan schrieb: > I'm more concerned about the overhead of calling spamassassin over and > over from within amavis. Some suggest three or four times better > performance using spamc/d over calling the spamassassin command directly > (which is (i

Re: spamd and plugins

2007-08-30 Thread jonathan
Matthias Leisi wrote: Amavisd uses the SpamAssassin Perl module directly (ie not really spamc or spamd). For a high-volume site, amavisd has advantages if you want to do additional checks besides SA (eg virus checking). If you only want to run SA, you could avoid the overhead of amavisd. Ok

Re: spamd and plugins

2007-08-30 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jonathan schrieb: > For a high-volume site, is there any reason to not be running > spamc/spamd over amavisd/spamassassin? Specifically, can you use all of Amavisd uses the SpamAssassin Perl module directly (ie not really spamc or spamd). For a hi

spamd and plugins

2007-08-30 Thread jonathan
For a high-volume site, is there any reason to not be running spamc/spamd over amavisd/spamassassin? Specifically, can you use all of the various perl plugins (imageinfo, pdfinfo, botnet, etc...)? Are there any other tradeoffs to this configuration? thanks, Jonathan.