[Mimedefang] Stupid feature request

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon May 1 07:15:57 EDT 2006


John Rudd wrote:

> Any chance for a command-line/rc file option to turn off mime decoding?

Someone else asked this just the other day. :-)  Yes, I'll probably
make such an option.

> I expect that the mime decoding is actually a fairly minor impact
> (compared to, say, spam assassin), but I don't know for sure just how
> much impact it has, and someone mentioned it in a discussion I'm having
> on another list.

Our measurements indicate that the MIME decoding and unpacking takes
between 1% and 0.1% of the CPU time of a SpamAssassin scan.

Regards,

David.



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