Thanks Matt! Points well taken. As I only use SA on a gateway with very limited access, I have not been too worried about the potential spamd exploit. However, user_prefs is not my first choice. In fact, I would rather use local.cf with spamd. I just don't like the idea of restarting spamd every time I would care to implement a rule.
Regards, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Kettler > Well, it's going to be VERY dependant on message rate and cpu > power.. So tossing it aside is a pretty gross assumption. The level > of "unacceptable" is entirely dependent on these.. If I get 1 > message per hour, 10 milliseconds of processing a message isn't a > big deal, if I get 1 million messages per second, well, even 1ms > of processing is going to break the system. > > It's also going to be very dependant on the rules themselves. > Rules which use backtracing are _massively_ more expensive than > simple rules. > > Also, with spamd allowing rules in user_prefs is a security > risk if you have any untrusted users who can log in and make their > own user_prefs files. Theoreticaly they might be able to construct > a clever regex and abuse that to exploit spamd and gain it's > privileges (usually root). Thus I warn you to think very carefully > before putting "allow_user_rules 1" into your local.cf. That > feature is disabled by default for a good reason. > > > Really for timing probably your best bet is to measure it > yourself using the time command. Run a sample message through "time > spamc <message" a few times, then do it a few more with a bunch of > rules added to user_prefs. You might want to disable RBLs and > network checks for this test so that they aren't adding extra > randomness to the behavior of the test. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
