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.

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