Can spammer 'force' a timeout ?

[Martin Hepworth]

Marcal

the bigevil rule set is really nasty on CPU. I'd change it to use the
www.surbl.org varient instead (see web site for how-to).

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Marcel Burggraeve wrote:
> Since a couple of weeks a lot of spam keeps getting through and when I
> examine them most of them have the following in the headers :
> X-Plusine-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (timed out)
>
> I'm not using RBL checklists, our mailscanner is not really busy and lots of
> them come in during the night when the system is almost doing nothing.
> We're running HP-UX 11.i, the latest mailscanner, latest spamassassin and
> I'm using big evil and a medicine rule from the rulesemporium.
>
> Could there be some kind of trick to force spamassassin into a timed out
> situation ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marcel Burggraeve
> Plusine
> The Netherlands
>
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