Re: [Evolution] spamassassin and evolutin 1.2.2-5: why SO SLOW

[Ralph Sanford <rsanford telusplanet net>]

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:47, Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> I now use spamc -c in evolution, but still ca.10sec/mail
>
>
> Redhat9.0 PIV, 1.8Ghz, 512MRam,Evolution 1.2.2-5, spamassassin-2.55
> ..
>
> does anybody successfully run with similar HW/SW run spamassassin within
> evolution?
>
> I just installed the RH rpm....do I need to configure anything?
>
> thanks
> christoph

Can't tell you how long my system takes to use sapmc in evolution, cause
I don't bother to watch and time it when it is downloading.  My system
is similar to yours (SuSE 8.2, Athalon 1.8 and evolution 1.4.3) and I
have not noticed any slowdown with evolution.

You can reduce the workload on spamassassin by careful placement within
your filters.  Or possibly adding filters.  After all if spamassassin
only checks 10% of your mail then it will only take 10% as long to
complete the checks.

For example, do you filter messages from this list and other mailing
lists?  Subscribed mailing lists are not spam and do not need to be
checked for spam.  Set up a filter for each mailing list and then set
the mailing list filters to be used before the spamassassin filter. 
Also remember to set each mailing list filter to finish with the "stop
processing" command (no need to run a message through the spamassassin
filter after you have filtered to mailing list).

Besides mailing lists, you can also set up filters for correspondents
that you expect/want to receive mail from (family, friends, business
associates, special interest groups).  Once again email from your mother
is not spam, though you may not feel the same way about email from your
mother-in-law.

Before I was using spamassassin, but with a fairly good set of filters I
had been able to filter most of my email into folders and restrict all
the spam to 2 folders.  This means that spamassassin only needed to
check those messages that the filters did not collect.  With
spamassassin I use it like an extra-fine filter to finish off the
processing of email.

Executive Summary: try putting regular filters before the spamassassin
filer to reduce the volume of mail that spamassassin checks.

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