[ale] fetchmail + spamassassin warning

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Thu Mar 6 14:24:25 EST 2003


On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:09 pm, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:50, Jason Day wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > nice'ing the spamassassin process, is there anything
> > else I can do to make sure I don't DoS my firewall by getting too much
> > email?  I'm using exim for MTA.
> >
> > Jason
> > --
> > Jason Day                                       jasonday at
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> >
> > "Of course I'm paranoid, everyone is trying to kill me."
> >     -- Weyoun-6, Star Trek: Deep Space 9
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> Doesn't SpamAssassing support running a spamassassin daemon?  Check out:
> http://www.spamassassin.org/dist/spamd/README.spamd

I run spamd and the performance hit is a lot less than piping every e-mail 
through spamasssassin. Don't know if it would solve the original problem or 
not. But if he isn't running spamd, he should switch.
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