Hello all,
Just to tie up the loose ends on this, I worked away on what
spamassassin debug was telling me and finally I came to the
conclusion that DNS was working, but just not quickly enough. I could
run, for example,
spamassassin -D < testmsg
three times in a row and it would do URIBL tests 1/3 times (the other
times it would come through with the DNS 'failed horribly' error).
What I ended up doing was adding 127.0.0.1 as DNS server for en0 and
this seems to have fixed the problem. Before then I had the actual IP
of that interface listed i.e. 11.22.33.44 and that seemed to be
enough to slow things down to the point where it would time out. I
have a feeling it might be related to ipfw that is slowing it down,
but that's just a guess. Might be something else specific to Mac OS X
server.
In any case, thanks to all who have contributed! It was your generous
work that helped me fumble through this and find a solution.
Miles Muri
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