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OKay, I've read, and been told from Tech support that the spamassassin that comes with SmaterMail is single threaded.. However.. I've successfully gotten it to run in multithread mode by running it from the command line with the following command line. spamd -m 50 --min-spare=25 --allow-tell...

Hi guys, Does any one have any knowledge of the performance of SM 4.3.2760 vs the new SM5. Specifically in terms of spamassassin or spam performance in general. This is on Win2000. The problem is this, we have about 80-90 inboxes. Many of them have to send large attachments or large emails, and everything...

Hi Guys, I had similar problems, and now have resolved, them. firstly your balance of your memory is used by microsoft for file cacheing, etc.. I would not recommend running the mail server with less than 2Gb of ram, in my experience a mail server can carry on merilly until that one instance where it...

Informed opinions are welcome, authoritative or not, so I certainly appreciate your response. I don't wish to get off topic, but saying that SpamAssassin is unrelated to SmarterMail, really seems off the mark. As I see it, inclusion of SpamAssassin in the 4.0 release of SmarterMail implies endorsement...

That is the problem, the spike to 450mb did kill our server! It has now become part of my routine to log into the server and check the memory usage of spamd, ending the process once I see it is around 150mb+. This morning it was at 212mb. We run SmarterMail on the same server we run our web sites on...

Hi, The Spam Assassin process spamd.exe is using a huge amount of memory on our server. I have noticed it consuming up to 450mb at one point. We run a small, low volume mail server, processing +-1000 a day. Our server configuration is well above the recommended minimum system requirements. Typically...