[Cialug] Mailfiltering

[David Champion]

I was running for a while on a temporary mail server - a p3-300 with an 
IDE disk and 128mb ram - while I rebuilt the main one. I had to disable 
spamassassin because it was absolutely killing that box - like the load 
average would hit 30.

The current mail server is a xeon 2.8ghz with 1gb ram and a sata raid. 
Spamassassin doesn't even show up on the load average radar.

There are options to run spamassassin to fork a process each time it's 
needed, or to run as a daemon, that make a big difference too.

-dc

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> A question on SpamAssassin ... have you ever noticed it being a resource 
> hog? One server I worked with was extremely slowed down by SA.  Should 
> it be run on a separate box or what should the minimum specs be for a 
> box running email plus these filters?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On Nov 9, 2005, at 10:49, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> 
>> Yup, SA will tie into amavis pretty easy, and clamav ties into amavis
>> pretty easy too.
>>
>> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>
>>> K, I assume hooking up SpamAssassin works in a similar manner then?
>>>
>>> --Tony