Author: Marcin Owsiany Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim + SA on a large scale
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:33:26AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Nick Miller wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I was wondering if any of you are running SpamAssassin in conjunction
> > with Exim for a large number of mailboxes? If so, have you experienced
> > any problems with the combo or has it been quite smooth? Just want to
> > hear some real-world experiences.
>
> I have about 100 mail servers and 5 spamd servers that service those
> mail servers. We have email addresses in the low millions. The
> spamd servers have a load average (I know it's a bad measurement
> of load) between .6 and 4. We average about 380 mails through SA
> per minute, but we only scan messages smaller than 80k and we do a
> lot of pre-SA acl checks so our actual mail rate is a lot higher.
> We SA and AV scan all in and out bound mail. We use exim 4.50 and
> use exiscan for SA and AV. The system ticks over nicely.
Do you use bayes? On my private machine feeding my private spam and ham
from several days (about 2000 messages) to sa-learn takes a few minutes,
and I'm wondering if bayes on large scale is doable without a large
number of machines deficated to SA :)
