[courier-users] MailDrop not being invoked

We are experiencing a situation where, all of a sudden, it seems that
Courier is not invoking maildrop on about 60%+ of the incoming
messages. It seems that it just accepts the mail and drops it into the
relevant MailDir.

However, it is still getting invoked on some messages.

This means spamassasin does not get run...and most spam email is not
getting inspected. From looking at headers of mail archives on one
account on the machine it seemed that this started happening on
2.Jun.2005...which is slightly after a load increase on the server by
adding a bunch of new mailboxes on a new virtual host.

One thought we had was that maybe there weren't enough child nodes for
spamassassin, but it seems like maildrop should still be creating a
log...thus we came back to maildrop was just not getting invoked in more
than the majority of the cases.

Any ideas? Relevant notes below... ~Thanks, charles uchu

Some of the config stuff that is set:

courierd
-----
DEFAULTDELIVERY="| /usr/bin/maildrop -V 10"
-----

maildroprc
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import RECIPIENT
import SENDER

logfile "/tmp/maildrop.log"

import VERBOSE
log $VERBOSE
-----

The output on the maildrop.log file looks like this, where it seems the
VERBOSE variable does not even have a value. Courier has been restarted
twice since making the change to courierd (once via "courier restart"
and another using rc). The XXX are my protecting the innocent"
-----
Date: Wed Jun 8 16:24:34 2005
From: "XXX" <XXX@XXX>
Subj: XXX
File: ./Maildir
(10565)


Date: Wed Jun 8 16:27:04 2005
From: "yhbyhblyhb" <iewwwst64eww4swwees@XXX>
Subj: *****SPAM***** µ· ±_ÇI¼¼¿ä ½Å¿ë3·_Ƶµ 1«'a/1«º,/1«1æ1r 'ëAâ°¡'É
Çö±Y½áºñ
File: ./Maildir
(5485)

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