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Kendall Libby writes:
> 
> I'm not entirely certain that this is a spamassassin issue, but since
> I can't find a more likely culprit I thought I'd check here...  We're
> running SA 3.04 on Solaris 8.
> 
> This past weekend our mail relays started using up too much swap.
> Looking in /tmp, I fould a bunch of files similar to these:
> 
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim     483245088 Jan 17 10:18 099b0003.$$$
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim     479784296 Jan 17 10:18 099b0004.$$$
> 
> Some were as old as September or December, though most were from this
> weekend.  The files all contain stuff like this:
> 
> -----
> spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: baesys not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: tems.co not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: -Appa not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: y-To:  not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: ps.com
> R not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: eceived: (E not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: GP: not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: -8_ not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: 1_0_ not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: 1); not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR:  22 Aug 200 not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: 2 16:11 not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> ERROR: :28 - not in spamExperiments/lz78RWordsFile5.
> -----
> 
> I can see obvious bits of Received: headers in there, but that's about
> all that's recognizable.  Also, every one of them references the same
> "lz78RWordsFile5" file.  I can't find that file anywhere, nor can I
> find any reference to "spamExperiments" or the file anywhere.  I also
> can't find anything in syslog, but I might just be missing it.

the filename format isn't used in SpamAssassin, anyway, so I doubt
it's SpamAssassin-related.

- --j.
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