On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 22:06 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Tim wrote: > > That's easy: Fetch a scad of mail when you have filters set, versus > > fetch a scad of mail when you don't have any filters set. > > > > Unmolested, they romp into the inbox very quickly. When filtering puts > > its fingers in, it's far worse than fetching mail over dial-up. > > That sort of filtering speed (I’m guessing maybe a couple of seconds per > message on emails generally smaller than, say, 128 KB) makes me suspect > that it’s passing emails through SpamAssassin – it sounds like the right > speed for SpamAssassin, and there’s an evolution-spamassassin package to > enable it. > > SpamAssassin is a good anti-spam package, which can be made *very* good > with the right options, but it’s designed around the assumption that a > couple of seconds per email isn’t a big deal. And it isn’t if the > filtering happens while the email is trickling in – it just takes a long > time if you initiate the download and wait for it all to come down. > > I would argue that it’s the wrong place to do spam filtering¹, except > that it’s a lot easier for someone unfamiliar with mail processing, the > command line and SpamAssassin to have it Just Work as part of the mail > client. > > In any case, it’s not reasonable to blame Evolution for anything other > than its choice of spam filter if it’s the spam filter taking the time. > > James. > > ¹ The *right* place is on the MX, the first computer that receives the > email, which should never accept emails it thinks are spam. But it’s not > always practical for end users to insist on this. ---- I agree that the MX should be discriminating about what it accepts. Many versions of evolution/Fedora ago, I stopped using junk filtering because spamassasin was so slow and memory was a terrible issue. I gather that the response was to implement the bogo-filter instead of spamassassin at the evolution level to solve that but I do have junk filtering on my mail server so I just shut it off and have left it off. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
