About spamassassin

[DEFFONTAINES Vincent <Vincent.DEFFONTAINES@coe.int>]

For those running spamassassin and caring about performance, there is
another solution than running spamd daemon and running spamc for each email
to analyse.

There is a perl dameon called spampd that uses spamassassin Perl modules to
do the job, and it talks SMTP. This way no process needs to be run for each
mail going through the server as when using spamc/spamd or worse
/usr/bin/spamassassin.

spampd can be found at this address :
http://www.worlddesign.com/index.cfm/rd/mta/spampd.htm

I have loaded it a bit for testing, and it did fairly well (100 small mails
went through in 20 seconds, 100 mails of 1.5kB each went through in 46
seconds, on a PII 233 IDE 64Mb system).

Only drawback : it doesnt allow per user preferences/whitelist.

Vincent