[NTLUG:Discuss] SpamAssassin

[Rev. wRy]

Rick Cook wrote:

> Unfortunately, SpamAssassin seems to place an inordinate burden on my 
> PowerMacintosh Dual 1Ghz G4 on its 1.5M/128K ADSL line (several seconds to 
> process each message with "lots" of network traffic during the checking). 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for improving SpamAssassin's performance?

Are you running it in stand alone mode or as a daemon?  What version of SA?

> Also, though it does not matter on ntlug.org, mail "gathered" by fetchmail 
> and fed my the SMTP server is treated as "local" and not scanned. If I fix 
> that, then mail that originates in my SOHO network also gets scanned as it 
> leaves. Not a desirable situation either way. Any suggestions on how to get 
> fetchmail to act like an external MTA?

Add to /etc/fetchmailrc this:

set properties "-m /usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

Have procmail do this:

:0fw
| spamassassin -P

Ry
(the above was found googling for 'spamassasin fetchmail' - don't know 
if it works or not as I've not used fetchmail)