I have solved this problem with the help of suggestions from Rick
Macdougall, Matthew Newton, and Bob Menchal. Thanks chaps!
suggestions were using spamassassin -D to debug, corrupt Rule in .cf file,
and corrupt bayes database.
It turned out to be a problem with one of the rules in one of the man
After having used Spamassassin with mime-defang for some considerable
time, with no problems, we are suddenly experiencing serious performance
problems.
Last thursday, after effectively being mail bombed, which caused max
mimedefang children to be spawned, and mail coming in at such a rate that
th
