Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

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Author: ROGERS Richard
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To: Martin.Hepworth, Matt, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim
Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> Matt
>
> Quickest (but not cheapest!) way is to get Spamassassin off the email
> email onto a dedicated box. SA is a real CPU hog.


before doing that, make sure you're only running SpamAssassin against
thhose messages you can't reject first by other means. SpamAssassin is
useful but accounts for only a small proportion of rejections here
(recipient call-forwards, DNSBLs and greylisting each account for far
more, for example).

regards

Richard

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Richard Rogers
IT Development and Innovation Manager
Staffordshire University


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