Matteo Dessalvi wrote:
I have a short question about the dns_server option of SA. Is this option used when SA is called from Amavis and there isn't any spamd process running?
Yes it is.
To be more clear: should I also be forced to add the IP address of the caching DNS server to /etc/resolv.conf or the option would be sufficient?
The dns_server only affects SpamAssassin. If you want other applications on that host to also use the same recursive name server, its address needs to be in /etc/resolv.conf. For example DKIM validation is done by amavisd calling Net::DNS directly, which has no idea about SpamAssassin settings. Similarly a milter or MTA.
Yes, I have read the docs but I was not sure if SA, when used through Amavis, would use such option. Nevermind, I pushed up the log verbosity of my DNS caching service and it looks like SA is using it. So, problem solved :-).
Mark
