[SAtalk] spamd ignores custom rules and runs very slowly

[Brian Kendig]

I'm having trouble using SpamAssassin with the Exim mail server, via SA-Exim. Specifically, my problems are with spamd.

(1) Spamd runs *very slowly*. It's taking more than half a minute for messages under 1K large. For example, in mail.log:

spamd[11997]: processing message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for exim:-2, expecting 888 bytes.
spamd[11997]: clean message (-1.0/5.0) for exim:-2 in 31.2 seconds, 888 bytes.

spamd[12015]: processing message <038c52d02c1a$7747b8d3$4eb30ce2@fruhbw> for exim:-2, expecting 2848 bytes.
spamd[12015]: identified spam (10.9/5.0) for exim:-2 in 30.4 seconds, 2848 bytes.

For larger messages, especially messages with attachments, spamd easily tries to take more than five minutes to process the message, and then it gets killed by Exim's timeout and the mail is rejected. The computer I'm running it on is under a very light load and has plenty of idle time. I don't see any error messages from spamd in system.log, mail.log, or eximmainlog. Why is spamd running so slowly?

(2) Spamd is ignoring the custom rules I'm setting up in '/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf'. For example, I set up this rule:

header SPAMTRAP1 Envelope-To =~ /spamtrap\@enchanter\.net/i
describe SPAMTRAP1 Delivered to spamtrap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
score SPAMTRAP1 50.0

Then I send email to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and it easily comes in under my 5.0 threshold even though it has an 'Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' header. This custom rule, and the others I set up in local.cf (all of them covering other spamtrap addresses like this one), are all being ignored. (Yes, I killed and restarted spamd after editing the file.)

My configuration: Mac OS X 10.2.1, Exim 4.10, SpamAssassin 2.43, SA-Exim 2.1. All the latest versions as far as I know.


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