 zeek said this was thoroughly confusing but by playing musical chairs with the spamd args i smashed a bug ok spamd debug daemonize auto whitelist username nobody allowed ips NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER ok spamd debug daemonize auto whitelist username nobody allowed ips NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER not ok spamd debug daemonize auto whitelist username nobody allowed ips NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER fwiw i can t reproduce this with spamd debug auto whitelist allowed ips NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER spamd debug auto whitelist allowed ips NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER spamd debug auto whitelist allowed ips NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER which i presume is what you meant except for the missing args of course they all seem to work ok j this URL email is sponsored by osdn tired of that same old cell phone get a new here for free URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 