[ale] spamassassin hint

[Jim Philips]

On Saturday 18 October 2003 09:41 am, Jim Philips wrote:
> On Saturday 18 October 2003 02:11 am, Jason Day wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:36:50PM +0000, Jim Philips wrote:
> > > Someone on the KDE newsgroup was complaining about Spamasssassin
> > > freezing up Kmail when it is processing incoming mail. It turns out
> > > this is mostly from doing DNS lookups. You can suppress lookups by
> > > starting spamd like this:
> > >
> > > spamd -L
> >
> > This doesn't just supress DNS lookups.  The -L option instructs
> > spamassassin to do local tests only; it won't do any network tests,
> > including razor and RBL checks.
>
> Here is the entry from the spamd man page:
>
> -L, --local                        Use local tests only (no DNS)
>
> Not trying to start an argument. Just wondering what they mean by "no DNS".

Doh! Now I see that I was reading your reply wrong. But people who use Kmail 
will be interested in this, because the whole interface seems to lock up when 
Spamassassin is processing incoming mail. In the newsgroup thread, everybody 
agreed this should be reported as a bug.