At 14:07 2004-02-05 -0700, LuKreme wrote:
On 04 Feb 2004, at 14:40, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
For a home user managing their own computer, who the hell wants to have
to manage a separate host just for mail processing? Hell, for a small
business, who wants to do that?
What are you talking about? Spamd does not require a separate host.
You haven't been following this thread closely have you?
Please refer back to comments about server load. Run a battery of SA tests
on messages and contend with 20-30K messages a day in traffic (not to
mention E/SMTP traffic when acting as backup MX for other sites - but those
messages are not subjected to SA). When server loading gets really severe
on account of mail filtering, you don't want that happening on a server
that is providing other services such as web and user shell, where that CPU
bog gives you a bad reputation and interferes with getting things done in a
timely fashion.
Just the other day, someone posted here about their mail server getting
bogged under the load of their A/V and spam scanning, and was looking to
see if procmail could offer a solution. I cannot imagine waiting 20
minutes, much less *14 hours* for mail to get through.
As more tests are added to SA, it's going to get larger and slower, unless
they make a significant change in the design.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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