On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Charles Gregory<cgreg...@hwcn.org> wrote: > Hmmmm. Big question for developers: Does the performance 'burden' of a large > e-mail come from the 'reading' of that mail into spamassassin and initial > processing? Or is the 'cost' of a large message only 'paid' when SA attempts > to run 'rawbody' or 'full' rules against the entire message?
There is very little load for reading in a message. It's all about the running of rules. Some rules "cost" more than others, "full", for example.