[ale] Spam Assasin + Bayesian Filters

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I like it too *but* I have some issues.  I'm using it now to check my
>  inbox.  Luckily we are small and do not have 100's of mail users.
> One day I was doing some tests on an embedded device and sent abut
> 200 email messages at once to our mail server.  I figured no big
> deal.  Since <flambait> spam assasin is written in perl, it took my
> mail server down to its knees </flamebait>.  The server stopped
> accepting mail and it took about 10 minutes for it to parse through
> all that mal coming in.  I was amazed at how this caused such a
> problem so fast. In a smaill installation like ours, it is the best
> thing since sliced bread but on an enterprise level, I'm not so sure.
> I can get away with having a two-bit network, but not sure about
> others.

I'm a bit surprised by this, although I've not looked at the code.  Has 
anyone been hacking at it?  Make sure that 'use diagnostics;' is not set 
anywhere in the code.  Although it's a fantastic debug tool, it will 
slow down a perl script substantially.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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