I am seeing the message deneb spamd[2859]: prefork: child states: II and deneb spamd[2976]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: auto-whitelist: cannot open auto_whitelist_path /home/reg/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist: Inappropriate ioctl for device in the second case, the file /home/reg/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist exists, and is writable by everyone (666) and owned by me user/group. [ it was 644 but I though 666 might help, id didnt] -- Reg.Clemens reg@xxxxxxx