SA whitelist db grows over time

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,

   Solaris 8, sendmail 8.12.6, spamassassin 2.43, mailscanner 3.24-1
(sorry, I'm too timid to jump to v4 in the middle of the semester,
I'm aiming for Thanksgiving break).

   I've noticed that auto-whitelist.dir and auto-whitelist.pag files
in /.spamassassin grow over time.  This morning I found a 52 MB .pag
file!!  I stopped mailscanner, zapped these two files, and restarted
mailscanner.  Spamassassin created new .dir and .pag files, and they
have been growing in size again since I did this (about 90 minutes ago).
When I did a "strings" on the .pag file, it has domain names, email
addresses, and IP numbers separated by pipe symbols -- akin to a
procmail filter recipe.  My spam.whitelist.conf file is relatively
tiny and unchanging.

   Has anybody else noticed this phenomenon?  Do these files get zapped
and recreated at the 4-hour mailscanner restart interval?  Should they?
If v4 doesn't do the 4-hour restart, what effect does this have on v4?

** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 207-872-3659
** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL: jaearick at colby.edu
** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX: 207-872-3076
** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
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