just a quick note of good news. It seems something is changing in the behavior of procmail/spamassassin on the server for me.. Here is what I did over the last 5 days as a user, no admin privs...
in $HOME/.spamassassin -rm'd a lock file on the autowhitelist from 30 days ago -cleared auto-whitelist.dir, auto-whitelist.pag (right or wrong, I did it, emptied, not rm) - exported and reimported the bayes DB via db_load erased the 700mb+ /var/mail/userxxx file (all mail) cleared the procmail log (which was also huge, yrs), manually called spamassassin programmatically a bunch of times, sometimes in debug mode, and with lint, then, added whitelist to/from to my user_prefs, along with a couple of minor user_prefs tweaks. Now, (it seems, cross fingers) magically the /var/mail/userxxx file is being kept small by something. The rates of spamassassin marked headers getting to my desktop client are much, much higher. I can't say how often SA was being called previously, but it seemed negligable. And my user_prefs changes are being reflected in the SA tests. Solaris / SunOS 5.8 Spam assassin 2.6 was getting 8000+ msgs a day through to me. We shall see what the new rates are, but it looks a _lot_ better. thanks to Stuart for a couple of thoughts in my dire predicament hth signing off -Brian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
