Hi There has been a few posts about this error but so far no solution.
I have a mail which, when sent to spamd with spamc, causes spamd to consume a lot of memory and cpu time. The scanning takes about 30 seconds for this mail of approx. 200 kB but the real problem is that it causes spamd to go from 50 to 190 MB consumed memory. Additionally, spamd logs several errors about "Deep recursion". The error log is attached below. The mail is a result of repeated bounces between two servers. That in itself is a problem but the mail should not trigger such bad behavior in spamd. I'm using spamassassin 3.0.1 with perl 5.8.3 on SuSE Linux 9.2 (kernel 2.6.5). The offending mail can be found at http://www.math.ku.dk/~zuziak/sa/satrigger.txt Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Martin Zuziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ******** Jan 18 10:40:31 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::parse_body" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 521, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::_do_parse" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 242, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::_parse_normal" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 446, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::_do_parse" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 242, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::_parse_multipart" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 437, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::_parse_normal" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 446, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::_parse_normal" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 446, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::new" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 611, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::_parse_normal" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 446, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:34 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::new" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 611, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:37 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::_find_parts" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 122, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:44 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::_find_parts" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 122, <GEN3284> line 6525. Jan 18 10:40:46 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::_find_parts" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 122. Jan 18 10:40:46 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::content_summary" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 460. Jan 18 10:40:50 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::finish" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 659. Jan 18 10:41:02 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::finish" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 659. Jan 18 10:41:02 imf spamd[6173]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::finish" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 659.