Are you running a local dns caching server? Do manual queries to rbls take a long time? (Hint: Don't run the query again, as it may be cached up stream and may give a fast result.)
You didn't attach your conf, but you may also want to set dns_available yes in your local.cf to save the dns check. Thanks, James > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Houghton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:12 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: DNS timeout problem > > I'm having a problem with spamassassin taking ages due to DNS lookups > timing out. I could make the timeout shorter, but I'd rather try to find > out what it's failing on and stop it trying to do those lookups. I've > made a log of its debugging output (attached) but I don't understand it > well enough to be able to identify the problem correctly. I hope someone > here can help me. TIA. > > -- > TH * http://www.realh.co.uk