Can spammer 'force' a timeout ?

[Desai, Jason]

I don't have any answers, but wanted to let you know that I've been seeing
the same sort of thing.

Jase

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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