ram wrote: > > > But I am seeing the DNS tests taking more than 10s on my servers from > the spamassassin -D logs > > Even though I have in my prefs file > rbl_timeout 5 > rbl_timeout is an administrator setting. You can't set in user_prefs. It's got to be a local.cf thing.
(This protects the server against individual users doing stupid things like setting it to 2 hours and log jamming the spamd process every time they get mail and a bunch of DNS lookups fail.)