Spamd and clean mail

[Richard Humphrey <ri...@multicam.com>]

I am running SA 2.63 on RH9 server. Dual Xeon 2.6 CPU, Raid5 2.5GB RAM
IBM X335 series server. I was doing some poking around and noticed in my
logs that clean messages are taking on average 32.5 seconds, but spams
are identfied in 3 seconds or so. Funny thing is, if I run spamd -D the
clean messages are found in 0.5 seconds. Am I missing the obvious here
or is something wrong. My /etc/init.d/spamasassin script starts spamd as
follows.

SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m10 -H -x -u nobody"

1) Why is it taking so long to validate a clean mail?
2) Why does running spamd -D from command line show to validate it in
0.5 seconds versus 30 or so when running from /etc/init.d/spamassassin
script?
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Richard Humphrey
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Re: Spamd and clean mail

[John Andersen <js...@pen.homeip.net>]

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:45, Richard Humphrey wrote:
> I am running SA 2.63 on RH9 server. Dual Xeon 2.6 CPU, Raid5 2.5GB RAM
> IBM X335 series server. I was doing some poking around and noticed in my
> logs that clean messages are taking on average 32.5 seconds, but spams
> are identfied in 3 seconds or so. Funny thing is, if I run spamd -D the
> clean messages are found in 0.5 seconds. Am I missing the obvious here
> or is something wrong. My /etc/init.d/spamasassin script starts spamd as
> follows.
>
> SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -a -m10 -H -x -u nobody"
>
> 1) Why is it taking so long to validate a clean mail?
> 2) Why does running spamd -D from command line show to validate it in
> 0.5 seconds versus 30 or so when running from /etc/init.d/spamassassin
> script?

Can't answer that, but I have found other spamd oddities
that have driven me away from it back to just invoking 
spamassassin.  (I have the cycles and don't have the volume,
so it all works out.)

I found that certain things didn't work, such as any of my special rules in
any file except local.cf, razor2, surbl, etc.

On a hunch, i changed my procmailrc to call spamassassin
direct and everything started working like i expected.

I've come to believe spamd is evil.  ;-)

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John Andersen