Re: Masscheck reuse

["Kevin A. McGrail" <km...@apache.org>]

Adding a few more to this email question.

On 9/3/2018 10:29 AM, Henrik K wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm wondering why pretty much no masscheck submitter is using --reuse?
>
> I just committed fixes for lots of missing reuse flags, and now I can
> actually do a ./mass-check --reuse --net run without ANY dns lookups
> launching.  So it's super fast too.
>
> What reason would there be to prefer running without reuse?  Is this simply
> a case of missing guidance/documentation?  Looking at some corpus logs,
> judging by Maildir file timestamps there are even few years old messages run
> through.  How can that make any sense, I wouldn't run anything older than
> an hour through DNSBLs.
>
> Of course I understand if someones messages don't have a scantime
> X-Spam-Status header for some reason, but even that could be easily fixable
> by simply running the messages through a dedicated spamd as soon as possible
> to add the headers.
>
> Cheers,
> Henrik


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