[Mimedefang] FW: Runaway Spamassassin

[Bill Maidment]

David F. Skoll wrote:
> 
> Yes, my usual mantra:  "When a previously-working system starts misbehaving,
> and you (really, honestly!) haven't changed anything, suspect a network
> problem."  Look for a DNSRBL host that's died, a datbase connection that's
> acting up, or something similar.
> 
> Of course, if you *have* changed something on your setup...
> 

Don't forget that in a live system something is always changing -- the 
incoming mail! We've had this problem a few times (weeks apart), but 
only on multi-recipient mail. We're hoping the extra 512MB RAM and 
consequent increase in RAM allocated to /var/spool/MIMEDefang will put 
this issue to rest.

Cheers
Bill