Hello Adrian,

Thursday, May 20, 2004, 5:10:15 PM, you wrote:

AM> We've been encountering a problem with Spamassassin and emails with
AM> long headers. One particular example keeps getting sent through our
AM> system (many, many copies), which has about 90KB of header (mostly a
AM> very long To: line). This has a disastrous effect on the performance
AM> of Spamassassin. I was wondering if there's a simple way to set a
AM> limit in Spamassassin so it only handles, say, the first 8k of any
AM> headers? That way, we should be able to avoid this sort of problem in
AM> future.

I'd be more interested to find out /why/ this long header is causing a
performance problem. If the problem is due to a 90k To, then IMO only a
few rules would normally even attempt to match on it.

Do you have any custom header To or ToCc rules? Custom full message
rules? Do any of those include .* or similar patterns that can be
expensive on long strings?

Bob Menschel



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