[ale] spamassassin hint

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

On Saturday 18 October 2003 02:11 am, Jason Day wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:36:50PM +0000, Jim Philips wrote:
> > Someone on the KDE newsgroup was complaining about Spamasssassin freezing
> > up Kmail when it is processing incoming mail. It turns out this is mostly
> > from doing DNS lookups. You can suppress lookups by starting spamd like
> > this:
> >
> > spamd -L
>
> This doesn't just supress DNS lookups.  The -L option instructs
> spamassassin to do local tests only; it won't do any network tests,
> including razor and RBL checks.

Here is the entry from the spamd man page:

-L, --local                        Use local tests only (no DNS)

Not trying to start an argument. Just wondering what they mean by "no DNS".