[ILUG] spamassassin setup

[Timothy Murphy]

I've an idea I have set up spamassassin wrongly on my desktop
(after installing my "new" Netopia ADSL modem),
as there is now a long delay when I start my mail-reader 
(kmail under Fedora 5) -
kmail reports that it is "initialising",
and then the indicator at the bottom of the page
goes slowly from 0% to 100%.

I get mail from 2 sources:
uucp mail arrives in /var/spool/mail/<user>
and POP3 mail from gmail and other places.

I've never been clear how procmail and spams/spamd actually work -
in particular where exactly they intercept mail.

I have

# SpamAssassin our way through
:0fw
| spamc

at the end of my .procmailrc .

In the kmail settings all my mail sources are set to be checked regularly -
at intervals of 5-30 minutes,
but it seems as though this does not have the desired effect,
or maybe it only has an effect while kmail is running?

I see the following spam-related programs are running on my desktop:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[tim at alfred ~]$ ps aux | grep spam
root     19986  0.0  5.6  30844 21820 ?        Ss   Sep13 
	0:15 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid
sa-milt  10900  0.0  0.1   4396   460 ?        S    Sep17 
	:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/spamass-milter-wrapper -p /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock -P /var/run/spamass-milter.pid
sa-milt  10901  0.0  0.2  11080  1052 ?        Sl   Sep17 
	:00 /usr/sbin/spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock -P /var/run/spamass-milter.pid
root     17258  0.1  8.8  40476 34136 ?        S    Sep19   1:36 spamd child
root     20461  0.0  6.7  32828 26112 ?        S    13:40   0:02 spamd child
tim      20862  0.0  0.1   3908   652 pts/8    R+   14:58   0:00 grep spam
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.




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Timothy Murphy  
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