[Spambayes] Using dialup up modem is tooooo slow

[Harold Vandeventer]

One of my users, with a laptop and Outlook plug-in .81, also complained
about exceedingly slow performance during a modem session.  He disabled
SpamBayes and the mail then downloaded very quickly in his next session.
He claims there was approximately the same amount of mail in both
sessions.

I discussed with him that I'd be surprised if SpamBayes was the
bottleneck because the mail would have to download anyway, but he (the
company President) assured me that a SB disable did the trick.  For dial
in sessions, he opens Outlook, disables SB, then makes the modem
connection.  He's happy; I'm happy he's not complaining.
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Harold Vandeventer
Network Administrator
DPRA Incorporated
200 Research Dr
Manhattan, KS 66503
 
Voice: (785) 539-3565 ext 1026
FAX: (785) 537-0272

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Meyer [mailto:tameyer at ihug.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:40 PM
To: 'Peter Terrett'; spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Using dialup up modem is tooooo slow

> I have installed Spambayes and it works very well.
> However I often use a dial up line and Spambayes is
> bogging down my email system to the extent that it
> is takes up to 30 minutes to process 30 or 40 emails,
> most of which are junk. 

Are you using the Outlook plug-in or sb_server?  If the former, then I'm
not
sure I see how SpamBayes slows the process down - all this mail would be
downloaded anyway, right?  SpamBayes doesn't interfere with that process
at
all - in fact you can have disconnected with all your mail downloaded
and
SpamBayes will still continue on classifying the mail.  Maybe adjusting
the
background filtering options (in the Advanced tab) would help?

If you are using sb_server, then this does slow the process down a bit,
as
the messages go through the proxy as they are arriving and are
classified at
that point.  It really shouldn't be that slow, though.  My wife's system
at
home is through a really slow (rural NZ) dialup connection on a pretty
slow
machine and I can't notice any difference between going directly to the
mail
server and through the proxy.  Maybe something's odd with your settings?

> If I run the uninstall (under
> control panel) does SpamBayes uninstall without problems? 

Yes.  If you're using the Outlook plug-in you'll also need to remove the
toolbar.  Please see FAQ 3.14:

<http://spambayes.org/faq.html#how-do-i-uninstall-the-plug-in>

=Tony Meyer

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