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 -- Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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