[Techtalk] Performance metrics for email processing

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:41:40PM -0400 or thereabouts, Terri Oda wrote:
> I'm going to be running performance tests on some email filters.
> 
> The tests are going to be done on a debian testing machine, either 
> using exim as the mail filter or piping the test set of emails through 
> the filters directly to limit other factors.

Are you planning to test SA-exim which does smtp stage filtering and is
supposed to significantly reduce the load on the virusscanner / spamassasain
sections since malformed spam doesn't even make it into the system where
other methods accept all mail and then test it.

http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2003-November/008716.html
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/mtas.html

Conor
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