endless respawning with SA enabled

[Andy Humberston]

> I've recently upgraded to mailscanner 4.13, and SA 2.50
> (patched) now, whenever I enable SA, mailscanner respawns
> endlessly, without any processing done. works perfectly when
> disabled. as far as I can tell, it quits sometime in the SA
> init stage, but I still haven't looked too deeply there.
>

I noticed a problem similar to this last week and upon
investigation I found the following settings (in
spam.assassin.prefs.conf) to help greatly:

# Settings taken from
#
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0208&L=mailscanner&P=R9717&I=
-3
# SpamAssassin Performance Tips (isp-list at TULSACONNECT.COM)

# By default, spamassassin will change the Content-type: header of
# suspected spam to "text/plain". This is a safety feature. If you
# prefer to leave the Content-type header alone, set this to 0.
#
defang_mime 0

# By default, SpamAssassin will run RBL checks.  If your ISP already
# does this, set this to 1.
#
skip_rbl_checks 1

# only check for a valid MX record once
check_mx_attempts 1

Andy