Not sure what the bug ever was. We do use compilenow in spamd. What
compilenow does is allow you to precompile the regexs without passing an
actual message through. It's intended to be called exactly once when
you startup a long-lived scanner process which can then fork to process
individual me
I use MailScanner with SA which calls SA using the perl inclusions. One
of the directives is compilenow() to compile the object. Mailscanner
use to use this before 2.11 but stopped because of false positives. I
had asked Julian the maintainer if this had been fix and he wasn't sure
so I figured