Jon Armitage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I solved the problem by simply making my filter not bother passing the > > message to spamc at all if it was over 200k. > > Yes, as I understand sa-exim, messages over 250K (the default in my case) > should not be passed to SA. That's why I'm wondering why these messages > _are_ being scanned, apart from the fact that the scan times out.
There's two different things which might be getting confused here. spamc itself is supposed to detect the message size, and just pass the message back unchanged (as opposed to sending it through spamd and back) if it's over a certain size (default 250k). The other thing is whether or not Exim actually passes the message to spamc in the first place. i.e. In the chain: Exim <-> spamc <-> spamd either Exim or spamc could detect the message is large, and not pass it down the chain. I don't know about your case, but in my case, spamc was hanging when it received the large message - which looks a lot like what's happening to you.
