On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:26:13AM -0500, brad angelcyk wrote:
> I have been using SpamAssassin for a few weeks, and I have noticed that
> the speed of scanning of email has drastically reduced since we switched
> to it.  My configuration is Sendmail 8.12.3 with SA 2.31 (using the
> spamass-milter sendmail milter).  There are 125 spamc processes running
> right now, and there were about 109 an hour ago.  They don't seem to be
> clearing up.  Does anybody have any information on what I can do?
the check_local tarball includes a program called miltrassassin.
It's a C Milter program speaking the SPAMD protocol so it will be
The check_local tarball can be downloaded on
Another alternative solution is to use Mimedefang : it offers
anti-spam, attachment defanging, custom filtering.

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