Thanks Craig, I'll try the MIMEDefang and see what happens.... Jim -- On 2002.05.15 14:09 Craig R Hughes wrote: > Though I've never used sendmail/milter myself, from observing the > comments > flying back and forth on this list about using spamass-milter I think > the answer > is one of a few things: > > 1. Use MIMEDefang as a front end for SpamAssassin instead of > spamass-milter. > MIMEDefang apparently works, spamass-milter apparently does only if > you're > lucky. > > 2. Switch to a friendlier MTA > > The basis of the problems seems to be that sendmail won't send the > full email > across to spamc for whatever reason, at least on some platforms. > Seems like it > would be logical for the whole message to get sent, then to read the > whole > message back. Sendmail doesn't do it that way though, no idea why > not. This > leads to spamc hanging on the read(). There's no SIGPIPE coming over > -- since > spamc doesn't handle that signal, it would die if it received one. > Sendmail is > just sitting there waiting for something before finishing sending to > spamc. As > I said, MIMEDefang seems to have solved whatever the problem is. > Apparently it > also now has some kind of pre-forking thing going on too, which I bet > helps out > on performance. > > C > > James B. Huber wrote: > > JBH> Speaking of dying..... > > JBH> In a nutshell, spamc is stuck waiting on a read, that never > JBH> completes (even after DAYS). Looking over the code it would > JBH> appear that: >
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