Peter, > I blew away SA today and am re-installing via CPAN - I think it may be > something to do w/ my Perl installation as a whole... Plausible???
Can't say, my first suspects would be DNS resolver or complex regexps. > I've reinstalled 3 times w/ the same appalling results 10-15 minute > scanning... the SA and Amavis builds are by the book! Plus I've got > other working machines that provide the basis of the limited > configuration options... I'm just about at the end of my tether... Try the following patch (adds some debug logging) and repeat your exercise with: su vscan -c 'spamassassin -t -D <test.msg' 2>&1 | timestamp --- Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/Check.pm~ Fri Jun 8 14:55:28 2007 +++ Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/Check.pm Wed Jun 13 18:23:59 2007 @@ -578,4 +578,5 @@ } } + dbg("rules: finished run body rule '.$rulename.'"); '; } @@ -891,4 +892,7 @@ $self->{test_log_msgs} = (); '; + $evalstr .= ' + dbg("rules: about to run eval rule $rulename"); + ' if would_log('dbg'); # only need to set current_rule_name for plugin evals Is the message suspicious in any way (like: very long, or many addresses in a mail header, ...)? Mark