[NTLUG:Discuss] SpamAssassin

[Rick Cook]

Hello all,

I have been "playing" with SpamAssassin at home with thoughts about setting 
it up to run on ntlug.org. This would be of benefit to the mailing list 
administrators and the few people who have ntlug.org email addresses. I 
think all of the mailing lists are set to require subscription prior to 
accepting a post (which adds to the mailing list administrator burden).

Unfortunately, SpamAssassin seems to place an inordinate burden on my 
PowerMacintosh Dual 1Ghz G4 on its 1.5M/128K ADSL line (several seconds to 
process each message with "lots" of network traffic during the checking). 
Does anyone have any suggestions for improving SpamAssassin's performance?

Also, though it does not matter on ntlug.org, mail "gathered" by fetchmail 
and fed my the SMTP server is treated as "local" and not scanned. If I fix 
that, then mail that originates in my SOHO network also gets scanned as it 
leaves. Not a desirable situation either way. Any suggestions on how to get 
fetchmail to act like an external MTA?


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Rick Cook