Man do I feel dumb. The day before I decided to tackle the CPAN install of Spamassassin, I had downloaded a rule from exit0.us (BodyRules.cf) it was an odd download since the page that displays it was a PHP page, so I went through and cleaned out all the extra html, but apparently didn't do a very good job. So I added the rules I had been using one by one and running spamassassin --lint to find out what was breaking it, and sure enough the error:

Scalar found where operator expected at (eval 17) line 686, near "} $self" (Missing operator before $self?) Failed to run header SpamAssassin tests, skipping some: syntax error at (eval 17) line 686, near "} $self"

was coming from the BodyRules.cf file.

I have also updated my LWP through cpan and I get no errors, so I'm off to test my maildroprc file to see if I can get this mail server back into shape. I appreciate all the help.

David Groce CCNA Network Server Analyst/Coordinator North Kitsap School District (360) 394-2621 dgroce@nksd.wednet.edu