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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Jose Luis Marin Perez <jo...@hotmail.com> on 2009/10/02 16:32:07 UTC

Questions about SA

I have some questions: 

 - How to calculate the amount of memory and CPU used by each process Spamd? 
 - Approximately 85% of spam are in Spanish, this can be a problem for SpamAssassin? 
 - Which tool can I use to get statistics of SpamAssassin, I am currently using the script "sa-stats.pl".

Thanks

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Re: Questions about SA

Posted by Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>.
On 02.10.09 09:32, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:
>  - How to calculate the amount of memory and CPU used by each process Spamd? 

very hardly without running multiple spamd processes. It also depends on
sizes of mails checked.
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Re: Questions about SA

Posted by Igor Bogomazov <bi...@hl.ru>.
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:
> 
> > - Approximately 85% of spam are in Spanish, this can be a problem
> > for SpamAssassin?
> 
> Possibly. Most of the default rules and most third-party rules are
> for English. This would tend to reduce your hit rate, but a
> properly-trained Bayes would help correct that.
> 
> I don't know if anybody is generating third-party rules for 
> spanish-language spam...
> 

I use SA for filtering Russian spam, and I have no complaints.

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Re: Questions about SA

Posted by John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org>.
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:

> - Approximately 85% of spam are in Spanish, this can be a problem for
>   SpamAssassin?

Possibly. Most of the default rules and most third-party rules are for 
English. This would tend to reduce your hit rate, but a properly-trained 
Bayes would help correct that.

I don't know if anybody is generating third-party rules for 
spanish-language spam...

> - Which tool can I use to get statistics of SpamAssassin, I am currently
>   using the script "sa-stats.pl".

sa-stats.pl is a good tool to get your local rule performance.

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