On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:17:12 -0400 "Kevin A. McGrail" <kmcgr...@pccc.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/2015 11:19 PM, Thom Miller wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:23:22 -0400 > > "Kevin A. McGrail" <kmcgr...@pccc.com> wrote: > > > >> Are you starting spamd before your networking and local dns are > >> started? Regards, > >> KAM > > No. spamd is started after the network is up and running. > > > > According to > > https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html : > > > > "By default, SpamAssassin will query some default hosts on the > > internet to attempt to check if DNS is working or not. The problem > > is that it can introduce some delay if your network connection is > > down, and in some cases it can wrongly guess that DNS is > > unavailable because the test connections failed." > > > > I decided that since the network should always be available, > > there's no reason for spamassassin to test it. > > Interesting. What version of SA are you using? I'm running 3.4.0 now, but I made this addition to local.cf when I was running 3.2. I don't know if the change is still necessary in my case, but I haven't bothered to remove it. -Thom > > > > > -Thom > > > >> On April 22, 2015 8:44:59 PM EDT, Thom Miller <t...@cagroups.com> > >> wrote: > >>> On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:16:40 -0700 > >>> Michael Williamson <michael.h.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I have another question. > >>>> > >>>> It appears to me that spamassassin can produce different spam > >>>> scores for the same email. > >>>> In particular, I have noticed that points are omitted for > >>>> RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS (Spamhaus blacklist) sometimes. Why? > >>> In the past I noticed that network tests were sometimes completely > >>> omitted. I believe sa checks for network connectivity before > >>> perfoming these tests, and incorrectly determines that there is no > >>> network available. > >>> > >>> In my case, adding: > >>> > >>> dns_available yes > >>> > >>> to my local.cf solved this issue. > >>> > >>> -Thom > >
