* David Bell (david@DB7654321.dyndns.org) [031008 00:20]: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:37, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Yes, spamc will lighten the load on your server as compared to running > > spamassassin on each message individually. spamc is a small C program > > that just pipes the message to an already-running spamd process. > > spamassassin (and spamd) run in perl. Starting up perl is a lot more > > costly than running spamc. Since this cost is multiplied by the number > > of inbound mails you want to check, small savings add up quickly. > > I'm currently using procmail -> spamassassin (not spamc) and notice the > system load to some degree... If I switched to spamd/spamc, would > spamassassin still store each user's settings/bayes DBs in their > ~/.spamassassin/ directory? At the current time, this is a major > advantage for my configuration. Yes, users' .spamassassin directories are still used with spamd/spamc, including preferences, white- and black-lists, rule weightings, and bayes DBs. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.anti-dmca.org/
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