[Mimedefang] How can mimedefang use spamc/spamd funcitons of spamassassin?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Apr 12 23:00:00 EDT 2005


Oliver Schulze L. wrote:

> - MD does not use spamassassin, nor spamc. It uses the perl API of
> SA, and it should not be as slow as spamassassin. But, will it be as
> fast as spamc/spamd ?

It should be as fast, if not faster, because of the preforked model.
(Though I believe recent spamd's also use a preforked pool of children.)

> - people want to have a spamc written in perl, will it help?

Not really.  Anything you could do with spamc, you could do just
as easily with direct calls into the Mail::SpamAssassin modules.

Regards,

David.



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