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David Brodbeck writes: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:00:51 -0700, Potato Chip wrote > > It's happened to me about 3 times, where an email will be sent to my > > server that specifically causes the problem. Killing the spamd process > > causes the sending MTA to resend. It usually occurs with an email > > with a large MIME attachment. In the last occurrence, the attachment > > was around 20MB and was only a .TXT attachment. The sending MTA will > > resend its Scud missle and I'll see the 250MB spamd process using up > > all available CPU. > > I've seen this problem. I avoid it by bypassing SpamAssassin for all mail > larger than 1 megabyte. Very little spam is this large, since it'd be > inefficient to send. Please note that pretty much *all* our documentation notes that this is the case. You should NOT scan very large messages. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBYYiCQTcbUG5Y7woRAnp/AJwKK/TJqlMnlC1ewAOG87Fin6T1PACg5tSP hWXW/JJWs4gYI1Q5BItbR70= =vjxr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
