On Monday 16 Feb 2004 12:07 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:05 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > ->Well, it does run it's tests on each message, but even on dial-up I don't > ->notice a slowdown that I would consider significant. My wife gets > hundreds ->of messages a day, and the download process doesn't irritate > her. > > I can live with it, but it is at least 3 times slower than before. > > ->I can't figure out how one daemon is slowing a game, unless you are set > to ->download mail automatically when it arrives on your mail server. > Maybe you ->can try setting the client to only download messages when you > request it to ->do so??? Are you running with "procmail" or just with > Kmail (the way I do ->it). I seem to recall that if SA is <pipe through> > spamc that it is much ->faster than spamd, even though spamd must be > running for spamc to work. And ->you have SA called by the Kmail filter > system and have it set to not check ->messages greater than 250KB in size? > > I'm not sure either, but I killed spamd and it played fine. It *could* have > been coincidence - I've seen greater ones. <grin> > > I'm running with Kmail only. I don't have <pipe through> spamc or spamd, > its <pipe through> spamassassin. Is that wrong? > > Yes, no large messages checked. (don't get that many anyways). > > PS I know there's a special place in Hades reserved just for spammers! :-)
If in kmail you pipe through 'spamc', then you must have the spamd daemon running. But if you pipe through 'spamassassin', then spamd is not used and you can safely stop it. The difference is that spamd is written in C and will be faster for a high volume mailserver than 'spamassassin' which is written in perl. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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