PMJI, but... I've been wondering where the 250K number comes from, and if it is still a valid max size? Is message size an indicator of spamminess?
<<Dan>> | -----Original Message----- | From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 11:34 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Max size checked | | On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bob Apthorpe wrote: | | > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:57:55 -0500 "Frank DeChellis" | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > > We're using Exim 2.63. Is there an option I can enter in | local.cf | > > or somehwere else to limit the size of email Sa will | check or tell | > > it to only scan the forst so many bytes of an email? | > | > Not really. The default limit for spamc/spamd is 250k which you can | > change in spamc with the -s flag. I didn't find a confguration | > parameter in my quick check of Mail::SpamAssassassin::Conf; if it's | > anywhere it's in there. | | In general, this particular issue is usually handled by the | mechanism that is used to feed the messages to SA. IE: if | you are feeding messages to spamassassin via a procmail | recipe you configure it to skip messages over a particular | size. If you're using spamc then you can use the '-s' | flag. Other methods (EG: spamasmilter) often have parameters | functionally equivalent to the spamc '-s' flag.
