<pre>> > Some of this may be related to the fact that I am using > > fetchmail to get mail from outside servers and hand it off to my > > exim4.. but I don't understand *how* it's related (or what I'm > Ahaha, now you fess up :) um.. yup.. mea culpa ;-} > SA-Exim is mostly useless if you use fetchmail. > Greylisting cannot work if you already accepted the Email. > SMTP time filtering is irrelevant if you're feeding the mail from fetchmail. OK. I can understand that once the mail is received somewhere, you can't treat it the same as if you were receiving it directly from the sender.. I'm doing about 1/2 and 1/2 right now.. My own domain/server is new, so I'm still getting stuff at old addresses.. and most of the spam is going to the old addys.. But I still don't understand what is causing perl to do so much whining.. I'm no guru, but I do use perl quite a bit, and I'm having a helluva time understanding what's going on here.. > If you don't have access to your outside MX to run SA-Exim there, you should > drop SA-Exim and just use spamassassin. > Sorry, SA-Exim cannot do much of anything useful in your situation. Too bad.. cuz apart from these perl complaints, it *feels* like sa-exim is doing what I want -- the spam is gone and the good mail is getting in! But, ok, I'll remove sa-exim from my config, and see if I can just get SA working alone.. Thanks for the help. cheers, John </pre>