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• speed of spamc using Mail::Audit? (Score:1)

  by markjugg (792) <reversethis-{moc ... mus} {ta} {kram}> on 2003.12.09 9:24 (#26382) Homepage Journal

  Great article.
  
  So is there a way to have the speed of using spamc while using Mail::Audit? Would simply switching to pperl work?
  
  Thanks.
  
      Mark

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  • Re:speed of spamc using Mail::Audit? (Score:2)

    by 2shortplanks (968)

    There's no reason that you couldn't switch to pperl and get most of the benifits of spamc. I think the author uses it (on an industrial scale) for the same stuff (or so he admits here [perl.org].)

    I use procmail over Mail::Audit these days because I've found it to be more reliable - that's not to say I still don't use perl to do most of my mail filtering. Here's the bottom of my procmail script:

    WHERE=`where_to_guv ${MAILDIR} ${DEFAULT}`
    
    :0:
    ${WHERE}

    where_to_guv is a pperl script that just prints out the name of th