Re: [Exim] Spam detection

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Author: Jason Robertson
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To: Nico Erfurth
CC: Tony Earnshaw, exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] Spam detection
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On 21 Oct 2002 at 3:30, Nico Erfurth wrote:

Date sent:          Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:30:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:               Nico Erfurth <masta@???>
To:                 Jason Robertson <jason@???>
Copies to:          Tony Earnshaw <tonni@???>,
       "exim-users@???" <exim-users@???>
Subject:            Re: [Exim] Spam detection


> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Jason Robertson wrote:
>
> > but can it handle half a million/day and up?
>
> That not a easy question to answer.
> If you run spamassassin as daemon, it helps you to save much time for
> loading and precompiling all the modules and regexps.

yes and a binary would save more then this.

> Using sa-exim COULD prevent you to save further CPU-Cycles, as the checks
> will be done very early.
>
> You should setup sa-exim in a way that it ONLY checks mails coming from
> untrusted sources, that will safe you some more load.


There is no trusted sources.

> I think with two similar servers it could be done, if you are careful with
> your settings, and you are doing some other checks while RCPT-Time
> (receiver/sender-verify and RBL-stuff) even 500000 mails could be handled.



> ciao
>
>



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