Hello,
Thank you for your responses...
Assuming my perl modules were installed correctly as dependencies of the
spamassassin package, am i right to assume that you guys reckon it's a
problem with spamassassin then?
What about this timeout issue (see below)?
> Here is a snippet from my troubleshooting on the
> spamassassin mailing list:
>
> > > > > In my experience each new version of SA is a little
> > > > > more resource intensive than the last. This
> > > > > generally means that scan times increase. If some
> > > > > work and some don't I suspect this could possibly
> > > > > be a timeout issue. Is there some sort of time limit
> > > > > involved where once that amount of time has passed
> > > > > the process errors out?
> > > >
> > > > As for crashing out due to a possible time limit, how
> > > > could i check this? surely such a feature would be
> > > > built into spamassassin, right?
> > >
> > > I'm guessing here (because I have never used EXIM) but
> > > does EXIM set a default time limit on sa_router: or
> > > sa_spamcheck: ?
> >
> > Not sure... i'll find out from the exim mailing list.
>
> So here i am... could this be a possible explanation, and
> how could i find out?
Thanks again,
Richard.
Stuart Rowan wrote:
> John Burnham wrote:
>>> Yesterday, i upgraded SpamAssassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to
>>> "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" on a Debian Sarge box, using the following repository:
>>>
>> The routers and transports seem fine. However, a quick check through a FreeBSD
>> Spamassassin change log does reveal that a bug was introduced that gave problems
>> with Exim, Spamassassin and BSMTP:
>> http://pkgsrc.se/mail/spamassassin
>> (bug 4966 in their numbering scheme)
>>
>> I'd check with the Debian package maintainers that this bug has been fixed in
>> the release they've put out.
>> J
>>
>>
> That release is also vulnerable to CVE-2007-0451 [1] (fixed upstream in
> 3.1.8) so you may want to wait for backports.org to produce an updated
> backport before using it.
>
> [1] http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-0451.txt
>
> Cheers,
> Stu.
>
>
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