was there an error message? Also, did you had a look on [1]?
Here it is - I'm running sendmail/procmail: sm-mta[16571]: k9U8TvTo016569: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input I suspect that the fact that its running on an ageing AMD K6 500MHz might have something to do with this. If I run # spamc < message.txt It hangs for a *very* long time with the volatile-sloppy version, but runs OK with 3.0.3 from Sarge. I might resurrect an unused AMD 22000 that's lying around . . . Another question - does the spamassassin package from volatile-sloppy need to be hand-compiled? I've had no luck with simple apt-get install.