Apologies for not finding it in my searching yet... I think it is my "sometimers" kickin' in... ;-> I am looking for info on the granularity knob control for number of extra spamd daemons on startup. ...AND if one has enough processors and ram memory, how to know how many "extra" to have available to speed up scanning and such under load. On CentOS machines would that be under SPAMDOPTIONS ? - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net