From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs(_at_)roaringpenguin(_dot_)com>
(I've some reservations about SpamAssassin, but only
because I wonder about Perl for filtering more than 50,000 messages/day.)
There are people using SpamAssassin to filter over 1,000,000 messages/day.
Like I said, you just have to be clever about it. Even a run-of-the-mill
PC should handle 75K-100K messages/day.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the DCC users who also use
SpamAssassin on more than 200K msgs/day seem to limit each of their
SMTP servers to about the same number as your 75-100K msgs/day.
Given that you're doing extensive string and regular-expression
matching, I doubt that C would be much more efficient than Perl for
message scanning.
Yes, given the SpamAssassin persistent process, you're probably right
that the main costs are in the regular expression processing.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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