Re: please kindly get back to me

[J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>]

Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:

>I've been using SpamAssassin on lists.us.dell.com for a couple months now.
>It's pretty effective, but of course not perfect - maybe one a month gets
>through, though I'm dealing with less traffic than vger.  I'm not actually
>filtering linux-kernel-digest or -daily-digest, except to verify that the
>mail actually was sent from vger and not some spammer.  With procmail
>recipies, it works quite well.  
>
I have been honing a set of procmail rules,
but it's a fine balance between thorough
checks and excessive slowdown of the
mail thoughput -

Anybody used spam assasin for a domain
handling say a few million messages and
a few hundred GB of mail every month,
to say 12,000 users?

I'm looking for a  good tradeoff between
fairly good spam rejection, and keeping
the "fast path" from bogging down  -

Will I just have to bite the bullet and use
a pair of quad CPU monsters for mail
to get good throughput?

Joe