On 13/01/05, Tony Finch (dot@???) wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> >
> > Incidentally, I was compounding the problems by using
> > exiscan+spamassassin. Spamassassin was doing rbl checks as well as exim.
>
> This is actually a useful feature of SpamAssassin. It does DNSBL
> checks for earlier hops in the message's journey using the Received:
> headers, which is useful for spam that has been relayed. Exim can't do
> this.
I've found that the RBL checks feature of spamassassin, which is on by
default, is causing DNS timeouts; I'm getting lots of stuck CLOSE_WAIT
processes generated by spamd.
Looks like the hosting provider's DNS server may need sorting out.
Thanks
Rory
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