SpamAssassin Hangup

[Peter Peters]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:33:20 -0400, you wrote:

>The "MX check" is likely the longest part of a SA test. By default SA will
>try 3 times, waiting 5 seconds each try, to perform the MX check, which
>means any email without an MX for from will timeout under MailScanner
>(MailScanner only gives SA 10 seconds to run). In any event MailScanner
>should kill SpamAssassin after 10 seconds by default and log a message that
>it timed out.

MX testing is one of the things I still do in Sendmail itself (4xx
error). These are the only mails that have truely no right to enter our
system. Nobody can respond to such an e-mail so why accept it.

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Peter Peters
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Universiteit Twente,   Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
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