how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

[Sandip P Deshmukh <deshmukh@escortsmumbai.com>]

hello all

i have been struggling to set spamassassin right. it slows down my
system terribly. almost makes me feel as if i am using a windows pc :)

i have spamc, spamd installed. i do not have razor. i use exim,
fetchmail, mutt to read my mail.

i already have the following in /etc/default/spamassassin:

# Change to one to enable spamd
ENABLED=1

# Options
# See man spamd for possible options. The -d option is automatically added.
OPTIONS="-F 0 -m 1"

following is my ~/.spamassassin/user-prefs file:

# How many hits before a mail is considered spam.
 required_hits		5

# Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns, so
# "friend@somewhere.com", "*@isp.com", or "*.domain.net" will all work.
# whitelist_from	someone@somewhere.com
whitelist_from debian*

i was told in a separate thread that whitelisting does not help.
spamassassin still processes the mail. how do i make spamassassin bypass
some messages altogether? i will prefer to do it as a normal user than
as root.

-- 
regards,
 
sandip p deshmukh
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