On 04/18/2014 11:31 AM, Erik Logtenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that SA has a safety feature that causes it to skip messages
> that are too large:
> 
> spampd[29159]: skipped large message (68.9130859375KB)
> 
> I agree very much with the reasoning behind this feature: it avoids
> certain types of denial of service attacks, prevents SA from eating too
> many resources for a single mail, and such a large mail probably isn't
> going to be spam anyway, but is usually ham with some large attachment.
> 
> Having said that, I would very much appreciate it if SA would be kind
> enough to nevertheless add a header so that users know that SA has at
> least taken a look at it, and preferably also telling them the reason
> for skipping this specific email.
> 
> I am now receiving questions by customers if our spam scanning is
> unavailable for some reason, and the only way to conclusively tell them
> what's going on is checking out all the maillogs...
> 
> Is it possible to configure (or change) SA to add a header always?
> 

The tool that hands the message to spamasassin (spampd in your case)
imposes the size limit. The message is never seen by spamassassin.
You're barking up the wrong tree ;)

Tom

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