MS/SA: SA problem

[David Lee]

We've been running MS/SA on Fedora machines for a few years.  Earlier this
week, I set up yet another machine, expecting it to be straightforward.
Clean OS install (FC5), clean install of MS (4.56.8) etc.

All seems well, including "spamassassin --lint --debug".

But when it starts to try to process email, MailScanner seems to take a
very long time.  Running it in debug mode shows:

   Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm line 718.
   Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm line 718.
   Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm line 718.
   dns: sendto() failed: Connection refused at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 339, <GEN131> line 67.
   dns: sendto() failed: Connection refused at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 339, <GEN131> line 67.
   dns: sendto() failed: Connection refused at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 339, <GEN131> line 67.
   dns: sendto() failed: Connection refused at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 339, <GEN131> line 67.

and lots more similar lines (although the "<GENxxx> line yy" varies).

Any thoughts on this?

Over the last couple of days I've tried various versions of SA (the above
details are from 3.1.3) installed in various different ways, but all
giving this set of errors.


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