Spamassassin slowing down kmail

From: anc (anc_at_nospam.net)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:07:16 +0000

Using SuSe 8.2, kmail 1.51 on KDE3.1.1 and Spamassassin 2.55 Spamd is
running as a background process, the only pop filters in kmail look at
headers and sent to different folders, but when I pull off my mail from
my remote pop3 mail server spamassassin takes around 20 to 30 secs per email
to process. Previously on SuSe 8.1 this worked much faster.

The filter in kmail first decides that emails are under 250k, then it pipes
all messages through spamc and if the header "X-Spam_Flag" equals "Yes" is
encountered, that email is moved to a spam folder.

Messages that are being processed are plain text only, some only a few kB in
size, why are these taking so long to process?

If I remove the spamassain mail filter lines mail is retrieved almost
instantly, my connection is 512k ADSL.

Prior to using kmail I use popsneaker at the command line, removing all spam
email, any remainder is dealt with by spamassassin.

Thanks in advance for comments, suggestions.

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