[TriLUG] SpamAssassin Minimum Requirements

[Michael Hrivnak]

I ran SA on a Pentium 60 with 48 mb ram just fine.  Just make sure you don't 
run anything on the system you don't need.

Michael

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 07:11 pm, Joshua Gitlin wrote:
> Hey TriLUG,
>
> Motivated by the earlier discussions on SpamAssassin, and the fact that
> I will be traveling in July and won't be able to check my mail via my
> usual mail client (which has already learned the types of spam I get
> and does an excellent job of filtering) I decided to install
> SpamAssassin. However, the system that I'm installing SA on is rather
> old -- a 266 MHz Pentium with 64 MB of RAM running mandrake Linux. Is
> this system just plain too old for SpamAssassin? (it's also running
> Postfix) At the moment, I installed SA and it seems to run fine (it's
> only filtering mail for myself, although I do receive an awful lot of
> email). The server only seems to have problems when I run sa-learn, and
> even then it still runs, it just gets very slow. Any thoughts on
> whether or not this machine is adequate, or if not, where I could get a
> better one? (I'm looking for very cheap :)
>
> -Josh