----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Peeler"
I have set my procmail TIMEOUT=90 so I don't wait too long for
SpamAssassin spamc to do its thing. Does anyone have a suggestion
if this is too short or too long?
Too short. In fact, don't kill spamc. It has its own timeout:
-t: timeout in seconds to read from spamd. 0 disables. [default: 600]
Procmail defaults to sixteen minutes; spamc, to ten. I'd cut spamc's
timeout in half, but no more than that. That's spamc -x -t 300.
What!? You can't have a delivery agent work on a message for that long, your
queue and server would get backed up. Honestly, I don't use TIMEOUT's in
procmail but common sense tell me to use a TIMEOUT=10 (or less if you have a
blazing system). If it takes more than 10 seconds for
procmail+calmav+spamassassin+bogofilter+whatever to deal with a message -
then you've got real problems.
-eric wood
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