Re: [Nolug] Unix spam filtering w/o SpamAssassin?

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:44 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > Since SA is written in Perl (i.e. is slow),
>
> Gee... You like language wars, don't you?

Slower than directly-executed binaries.

> The only slowness is in the startup. You can get around this by
> running SA as a daemon (via spamd) and client (spamc).

Is there a spamd for each user?

>From top(1):
24525 me 15 0 29100 25m 4360 S 0.0 2.6 0:00.86 spamd
21353 root 16 0 29252 25m 4164 S 0.0 2.6 0:05.91 spamd

> Of course, if you use external DNS checks, Razor, etc., it'll still be
> slow since anything over the network is (compared to the checking SA does).
>
> > and can be resource- intensive, are there any good alternatives?
>
> CRM114: http://crm114.sf.net/ is a popular alternative to SA.

Thanks

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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