Michael Frotscher wrote: > On Monday, 3. April 2006 16:35, Matt Kettler wrote: >> Are the messages involved over 250k? Unless you pass -s with a different >> size, spamc will bypass scanning for any message over 250k. > > I was wondering about the same thing: I want to filter mails with large > attachments from a guy who is in my blacklist. But as said, sa ignores > messages above 250k.
If the guy is in your blacklist, can you just blacklist him at the MTA layer? It will save you a lot of CPU overhead and network bandwidth if you 550 at the time of the SMTP "MAIL FROM" command. (note this is called "rejecting" spam, and should not be confused with "bouncing" spam by generating a post-delivery DSN) > > Is there a way to get spamassassin to examine those messages by header only? > That way it wouldn't need to chew through the entire message but still filter > out blacklisted addresses. Erm, pre-process the message and feed only the headers to SA? Really ugly.
