On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
1) a tiny perl test-script using gethostbyname() will look at /etc/hosts and try to resolve the name from there. Works fine and just as expected. 2) a call to gethostbyname() from within an SA plugin does NOT look at /etc/hosts.
When in doubt, blame permissions. Make sure your first test is being run as the same user as spamd/spamassassin (or as any unprivileged user). - C
