I see this bug as well in current sid. It only happens on boot, not when the daemon is started from the standard command line. It's easy to see why, though:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls /etc/rc3.d/{*syslog*,*spam*} /etc/rc3.d/S19spamassassin /etc/rc3.d/S20inetutils-syslogd ... so spamd is started before syslogd on my system. ii spamassassin 3.1.0a-2 Perl-based spam filter using ii spamc 3.1.0a-2 Client for SpamAssassin spam ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.10-1 NIST SHA-1 message digest al ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.48-1 A collection of modules that ii libnet-dns-perl 0.53-2 Perform DNS queries from a P ii libsocket6-perl 0.17-1 Perl extensions for IPv6 ii perl 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extra ii inetutils-syslogd 1.4.3+20051212-3 System logging daemon -- Andrew Moise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]