Hello, Thank you for your responses...
Assuming my perl modules were installed correctly as dependencies of the spamassassin package, am i right to assume that you guys reckon it's a problem with spamassassin then? What about this timeout issue (see below)? > Here is a snippet from my troubleshooting on the > spamassassin mailing list: > > > > > > In my experience each new version of SA is a little > > > > > more resource intensive than the last. This > > > > > generally means that scan times increase. If some > > > > > work and some don't I suspect this could possibly > > > > > be a timeout issue. Is there some sort of time limit > > > > > involved where once that amount of time has passed > > > > > the process errors out? > > > > > > > > As for crashing out due to a possible time limit, how > > > > could i check this? surely such a feature would be > > > > built into spamassassin, right? > > > > > > I'm guessing here (because I have never used EXIM) but > > > does EXIM set a default time limit on sa_router: or > > > sa_spamcheck: ? > > > > Not sure... i'll find out from the exim mailing list. > > So here i am... could this be a possible explanation, and > how could i find out? Thanks again, Richard. Stuart Rowan wrote: > John Burnham wrote: >>> Yesterday, i upgraded SpamAssassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to >>> "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" on a Debian Sarge box, using the following repository: >>> >> The routers and transports seem fine. However, a quick check through a >> FreeBSD >> Spamassassin change log does reveal that a bug was introduced that gave >> problems >> with Exim, Spamassassin and BSMTP: >> http://pkgsrc.se/mail/spamassassin >> (bug 4966 in their numbering scheme) >> >> I'd check with the Debian package maintainers that this bug has been fixed in >> the release they've put out. >> J >> >> > That release is also vulnerable to CVE-2007-0451 [1] (fixed upstream in > 3.1.8) so you may want to wait for backports.org to produce an updated > backport before using it. > > [1] http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-0451.txt > > Cheers, > Stu. > > -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
