Yan Seiner wrote: > I use spamassassin, dspam, and exim. Somehow the mysql tables for dspam
> got corrupted, and (apparently) exim was in an endless loop.
>
> I shut down dspam, spamassassin, exim, and repaired the mysql tables,
> and all is well....
It may pay off to consider separating spam filtering and MTA into
different boxes. And perhaps removing the added complexity of a database
"backend".