According to the log, it's taking SA 3 seconds to process a 6K message from this list. All external stuff for SA is disabled. Is this normal? 450MHz Pentium 3, 576MB memory, lightly loaded Jul 9 13:20:27 ciscy sendmail[29865]: i69IKREG029865: from=<fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx>, size=5727, class=-100, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1089397003.19925.101.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=hormel.redhat.com [209.132.177.30] Jul 9 13:20:27 ciscy spamd[28150]: connection from ciscy.sterndata.com [127.0.0.1] at port 5448 Jul 9 13:20:27 ciscy spamd[29870]: info: setuid to root succeeded Jul 9 13:20:27 ciscy spamd[29870]: Still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody. Jul 9 13:20:27 ciscy spamd[29870]: processing message <1089397003.19925.101.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for root:99. Jul 9 13:20:30 ciscy spamd[29870]: clean message (0.0/5.0) for root:99 in 3.3 seconds, 5987 bytes. /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf required_hits 5.0 rewrite_subject 0 subject_tag *****SPAM***** report_safe 1 use_terse_report 0 use_bayes 1 auto_learn 1 skip_rbl_checks 0 use_razor2 0 use_dcc 0 use_pyzor 0 ok_languages all ok_locales all -- Steve