Thanks Matt! I hope this question is not too ignorant . . . Do you have a feel for the number of rules that would need to be in user_prefs to have a significant impact on performance relative to spamd with everything else being equal? I am just looking for a rough guess. I could imagine that the rate of message flow would have a bearing. But let's toss out message rate for the sake of argument.
Regards, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Kettler > At 12:05 AM 8/26/03 -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > >I have not had much call to create custom rules. I just started > >experimenting with rules and I noticed that the rules were > >not checked unless I first restarted spamd. Is this normal? > > Yes, local.cf and all of the /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf > files are only parsed when spamd starts. This saves time so it > doesn't have to re-read and re-parse the files per email. > > And of course, saving overhead is the whole reason to use > spamd in the first place. > > (and for completeness it still parses user_prefs per message, > since the user can change. But it also doesn't honor rules in > user_prefs by default.) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
