On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 14:15, Kris Deugau wrote:
> Jim Conner wrote:
> > Believe it or not I am simply running this for one user....me :)
> 
> *OUCH*
> 

Yeah!  Tell me about it! :)

> >  So,
> > just one account.  However, the volume can get quite high as I have
> > had the same email account for several years so there is lots of spam
> > involved.  What's more is that I am on several mail lists so the
> > volume per day is in the thousands...an average of 2.5 to 3K per day.
> >  However, this problem that I am seeing lately is occurring when I am
> > only grabbing around 300 messages.
> 
> Hmmm.  
> 
> > This machine has 256 Mb of ram.  As I stated before, its only being
> > used for one user.
> 
> For single-user the hardware isn't much of a limit- usually.
> 
> > I am using this machine as my spam filter.  So, I have fetchmail
> > fetching my mail and then I have a forward rule in my .forward file
> > to pipe messages into spamassassin.
> 
> Ummmm....   Do you have fetchmail feeding into a local MTA?

I do.

> 
> >  This is probably where the
> > serialness of the spamassassin processes that you see is coming from.
> > Then I am using popfile to grab my mail...yes, superfluous, but it
> > was in use before I started using spamassassin and just never stopped
> > using it.
> 
> Ah, OK;  you're not running a "real" server.  <g>  That changes things
> quite a bit.
> 
> IIRC fetchmail can feed directly into procmail;  you might want to spend
> some time looking into that to serialize the fetchmail->procmail part of
> your local delivery.  I *think* that will effectively force fetchmail to
> wait for procmail to finish before starting on the next message.  You
> may still want to look seriously into using spamd/spamc instead of
> spamassassin due to the startup overhead.

That's something I will look into.  I didn't think I could do that.  Any
idea on a good document that won't talk over my head in how to set up
spamc/spamd?

- Jim

> 
> -kgd
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Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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