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• • I get warnings about "tainting" when I run spamassassin from /etc/procmailrc: ProcmailTaintWarning
    
  • On startup spamd dies with the error "IO::Socket::INET: Invalid argument": IoSocketInetInvalidArgument; or the message "Required module Storable not found!": StorableNotFound
    
  • I get warnings in the syslog from spamd about 'Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 4': Ipv6Resolver
    
  • When I run 'spamassassin --lint', I see messages about '

    No Format
    Net::Ident::_export_hooks() called too early to check prototype

    ': NetIdentPrototype
    
• Warning messages in the system log:
  
  • Wiki MarkupI get warnings in the syslog from spamd like {{spamd\[3279\]: prefork: server reached \ -\-max-clients setting, consider raising it}}, but I can't find a {{\-\-max-clients}} setting: [MaxClientsWarning] \\
    
  • I get warnings in the syslog from spamd about 'Can't call method "bgsend" on an undefined value': CantCallMethodBgsend
    
• Performance & memory:
  
  • SpamAssassin/spamd seem to take a very long time to scan large emails, and are bogging down my server: SpamdKillingServer
    
  • I keep running out of memory every now and again: OutOfMemoryProblems
    
  • I see error messages about tcp timeout: FasterPerformance
    
  • SpamAssassin starts to chew away all memory and finally fails with 'Deep recursion on subroutine "DB_File::AUTOLOAD"': DeepRecursionInDbFile
    
  • When I look at 'top', the spamd processes are not sharing enough memory: TopSharedMemoryBug
    
  • Procmail and SpamAssassin seem not to process some of my messages when the load gets too high: NoProcessOnOverload
    
  • I keep running out of open file descriptors, typically when using spamd: OutOfFileDescriptors
    
  • I find lots of bayes_toks.expireNNNNN files in my bayes_path directory: ManyBayesToksExpireFiles
    
• Filtering and labeling:
  
  • When I use "-t", it tells me my mail is spam, even when it's not: AlwaysSpamWithTswitch

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