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> 	1) spamd (part of SpamAssassin) is written in perl.  This is
> fine for a workstation, not so much for a high-volume mail server.

SpamAssassin itself is written in Perl... But it can be run on a
remote server, it does not have to be on the machine running sendmail.

> 	2) installing spamass-milter requires rebuilding sendmail.  (I
> have no idea about other MTAs.)  This usually sounds more
> frightening than it is, but can still lead to complications.

I think stock sendmail is installed with milter, so it is only a
matter aof configuration, not of compiling.

Olivier