Well caught, Mark! I'd come to similar conclusions even without digging into the code when I saw DNS-related strangeness when I was testing SA 3.2.0 a few weeks back.
I'll second your request that SA process all results it has collected on timeout, instead of discarding them. Cheers, Phil -----Original Message----- From: Mark Martinec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2007 17:20 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: These are getting through SA... Luis, > > Namely with 22 RBL results coming back, the last one > > (which was the crucial URIBL test) had a timeout of 0 > > and was ignored even though dns result did arrive. > > > > Moreover, there is a bug in Mail::SpamAssassin::Dns, where > > a late-spawned URIBL queries (which only start after Razor, > > DCC and Pyzor are run) are being timed against start time > > of the first wave of plain RBL dns queries, which are fired-off > > seconds earlier, so there is a good chance that URIBL queries > > time out in 0 seconds and their resultes are never collected. I submitted a problem report, with a proposed patch: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5511 Things are much more predictable now. Mark
