timeout with mailscanner

[Julian Field]

At 14:33 30/07/2002, you wrote:
>I don't have any timeouts (yet) but somebody who expects 28MB+ messages
>in the future was asking what happens when a timeout occurs.

It depends what times out. If the virus scanner times out, then the message
will get quarantined. You can solve that by simply making the virus scanner
timeout big enough. The default supplied value for this is 300 seconds (5
minutes) which is much longer than it would take to scan 28Mb of data, so
that won't be a problem.

Messages that large will be bigger than the "Max SpamAssassin Size" value,
so they won't ever get passed to SpamAssassin anyway.

So the answer to his problem is that it won't be a problem at all and
MailScanner will handle it just fine.

>  He is used
>to accessing SpamAssassin in ways that a timeout gives a temp-error to
>sendmail resulting in requeueing and a new attempt some time later.

Yuck!
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