From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 06:04:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398EF37B401 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 06:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 129AC43F85 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 06:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cinek@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 21625 invoked by uid 65534); 27 May 2003 06:18:55 -0000 Received: from p50877B0C.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO p50877B0C.dip.t-dialin.net) (80.135.123.12) by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 27 May 2003 08:18:55 +0200 From: Martin Krzysiak To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:18:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305270818.54808.cinek@gmx.de> Subject: Problems with fetchmail & DNS resolve X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 13:04:34 -0000 I have a problem, maybe just I, but I want to ask how to solve it, because I am sick of one spammer who keeps sending me email. I am using fetchmail and there is one spammer whose hostname does not timeout quickly enough (try: 'host loyus.com'; that's the bad guy). The timeout comes after several minutes and fetchmail gives up fetching mails. It is mostly annoying, because your mails are being doubled while having this guy in the POP3 mailbox and I have to logon manually on the POP3 box to remove the spam. I would like to use DNS (good protection), but I also try 'no dns' option and it does not work here (I don't know why). Now my question. Is there a way to set the timeout lower for resolving hostnames on a system? Thanks, Martin