John Rudd wrote:

> If you want to disable JUST spamhaus, and not the other RBLs:
>   Find the rules cf files (probably in /usr/local/share/spamassassin)
>   grep through the files to find the names of the various spamhaus rules.
>   Go to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf (or wherever your site wide
> local.cf file is) and add score entries in that file which set those
> scores to 0.
>   Then hope and pray that the rule names don't change on an update, or
> you'll have to re-do this process (unless they implement the config
> change I requested where you specifically enable RBLS by RBL zone name).


An alternative workaround: to SA 3.2.3 apply a patch in:

  http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5589

then you can specify per-zone timeouts, e.g.:

  rbl_timeout 1.5 spamhaus.org

Doesn't disable DNS, but at least limits the time
wasted on waiting for responses.

  Mark

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