[Mimedefang] Reasonable filter times

[Tim Boyer]

Obviously, there isn't a 'one size fits all' for scan times - they can be
all over the place.  But I'm curious if anyone has a feel for what a
reasonable scan time would be.

I am apparently getting some timeouts from a mailing list, and they're
saying that perhaps my system is taking too long to process the message.
I'm running MIMEDefang, and using SpamAssassin with a couple of DNSBLs and
ClamAV.  Using the '-T' switch my average filter time this month is 1113ms,
with a standard deviation of 1900.  So the majority of my emails are handled
within about 5 seconds.

Is this way too long?

-- tim --