Jason Marshall wrote:
> Good day!
> 
> My Spamassassin worked for years without skipping any emails.  Suddenly
> (and not coresponding to an upgrade) emails started showing up in my
> inbox without spamassassin headers.

How big are the messages that aren't getting scanned?

Over 250k?

> 
> I call spamc via procmail.  Spamassassin is v3.1.0, and I run spamd like
> this:
> 
>   /usr/bin/spamd -d --min-spare=3 --max-conn-per-child=50 -m 15
> 
> I've tried adjusting the -m values even as high as 50, and it doesn't
> seem to make any difference.

It shouldn't make any difference.

> 
> Is it possible that spamd is being overloaded?  This server "only" does
> about 25000 messages a day, has 3 gigs of RAM, and a decent 2.0 GHz CPU.
> I don't believe there are hardware issues -- nothing seems to be working
> incorrectly other than spamc.
> 
> Is there anywhere to look for messages from spamd about why it doesn't
> appear to be either accepting new connections, or isn't scanning, or
> whatever it's actually doing?  Thanks!

You could check your logfiles. By default spamd logs to the "mail" facility, so
they should be in your /var/log/maillog.

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