On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 05:31:28 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've used SA for a year or more, but always have the network type >tests turned off. My setup is at the scale of single user home lan >with maybe 2-3000 messages incoming weekly. > >I wondered if someone in a similar status could report what they see >with the networked tests turned on. I'm not sure what all falls under >that category but maybe someone could elaborate a little about which >are more costly etc. > >I'm thinking with my light usage it may be smarter to be using them, >also wondered how much more effective that makes SA.
My setup is similar to yours: a single home user with at least 2000 spams received per week. I use just the 2.63 default rbl and mx tests. That cuts my false negative rate down by a factor of 10 to 0.1%. It seems like the network tests add two to three seconds to the average message processing, but that time isn't spent using the CPU so network tests shouldn't increase your overall CPU load per message. Hope this helps, Alan P.S. Running SA based SAproxy 2.6 on Win98SE.
