[Mimedefang] spamassassin - memory or cpuintensive

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Ole Michaelsen wrote:

> Let's say I only pass messages larger than 128KB on to SpamAssassin.
> What determines how long time SA would take to process each message?

As far as I know, SpamAssassin treats the entire message as a single
very looooooong line, and then does regular-expression matching against
that line.

So I'd expect it to be CPU-intensive.

Regards,

David.