[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Wed Sep 22 20:11:40 EDT 2004


David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote:
> 
>> 1) The compiled C spamd processes messages faster then the perl
>> module. 
> 
> I can't believe that.  The message processing is still done in Perl,
> after all. 
> 

There are other reasons to run spamc/spamd besides C... for example, spamc can connect to spamd's running on other servers.  So you could have a bunch of small servers on the perimeter, using spamc to connect to a few high-powered servers running internally.

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com                      805.964.4554 x902
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