Don't know how helpful this will be, but, just started it up and watched it hang ...
According to /var/log/maillog, as previously noted, the hang is based on a simultaneous arrival of two messages: Feb 12 22:01:53 earth sendmail[91753]: g1D21pkw091747: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=cyrus, pri=30679, relay=localhost, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Feb 12 22:01:53 earth sendmail[91692]: g1D21bkw091692: Milter add: header: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.01 Feb 12 22:01:54 earth sendmail[91758]: g1D21bkw091692: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:17, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=cyrus, pri=138802, relay=localhost, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Feb 12 22:02:01 earth sendmail[91780]: g1D21wkw091780: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=13424, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail2.stockwatch.com [207.102.62.11] Feb 12 22:02:01 earth sendmail[91819]: g1D221kw091819: from=<>, size=6395, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=zanaco.com [64.49.215.210] processes of hte spam programs shows: earth# ps ax | grep spam 90082 ?? IsJ 0:00.10 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -A 64.49.215.11 -u nobody -s local1 91784 ?? IJ 0:00.00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -A 64.49.215.11 -u nobody -s local1 91821 ?? IJ 0:00.00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -A 64.49.215.11 -u nobody -s local1 90171 p1 IJ 0:00.20 /usr/local/bin/spamass-milter /var/run/spamass.sock 91783 p1 IJ 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/spamc 91820 p1 IJ 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/spamc And a tail end of a ktrace shows (before I killed off all the processes), using kdump -l: (c) Copyright 2002 Canjex Publishing Ltd. http://www.stockwatch.com\r \r \r \r \r \r \r **************************************************************************\r A fee was NOT paid to Stockwatch for the distribution of this bulletin.\r THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY SECURITY!\r To remove yourself from this mailing list, access this URL:\r http://www.stockwatch.com/sw/unsubscribe.dbm\r For more information about this service please contact the\r advertising department at Stockwatch 800.268.NEWS or 604.687.1500\r *************************************************************************a\r \r " 90171 spamass-milter RET write 13228/0x33ac And, after killing them off: **************************************************************************\r A fee was NOT paid to Stockwatch for the distribution of this bulletin.\r THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY SECURITY!\r To remove yourself from this mailing list, access this URL:\r http://www.stockwatch.com/sw/unsubscribe.dbm\r For more information about this service please contact the\r advertising department at Stockwatch 800.268.NEWS or 604.687.1500\r *************************************************************************a\r \r " 90171 spamass-milter RET write 13228/0x33ac 90171 spamass-milter CALL poll(0x80a2800,0x1,0) 90171 spamass-milter RET poll 1 90171 spamass-milter CALL write(0x6,0xbfacbe24,0x5) 90171 spamass-milter GIO fd 6 wrote 5 bytes "\0\0\0\^Ac" 90171 spamass-milter RET write 5 90171 spamass-milter CALL poll(0x80a2800,0x1,0) 90171 spamass-milter RET poll 1 90171 spamass-milter CALL read(0x6,0xbfacbde4,0x5) 90171 spamass-milter GIO fd 6 read 5 bytes "\0\0\0\^AE" 90171 spamass-milter RET read 5 90171 spamass-milter CALL fstat(0x9,0xbfacbd0c) 90171 spamass-milter RET fstat 0 90171 spamass-milter CALL close(0x9) 90171 spamass-milter RET close 0 90171 spamass-milter CALL read(0xa,0xbfacb994,0x400) 90171 spamass-milter PSIG SIGTERM caught handler=0x2812c4b4 mask=0x0 code=0x0 90171 spamass-milter RET read RESTART 90171 spamass-milter CALL sigreturn(0xbfacb6cc) 90171 spamass-milter RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN 90171 spamass-milter CALL read(0xa,0xbfacb994,0x400) 90171 spamass-milter PSIG SIGKILL SIG_DFL earth# does this help any? _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk