Message larger than max testing size

Antony Stone Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK
Wed Jul 23 15:16:35 IST 2003


On Wednesday 23 July 2003 3:01 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 12:16 PM 7/23/2003 +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> >MailScanner has a setting Max SpamAssassin Size, which avoids doing SA
> > checks on very large messages.
> >
> >However, the size appears to apply to the entire incoming email, not just
> > to the text part of it which would be checked by SA.
>
> SA doesn't just check the "text part".. SA gets the whole message,
> completely un-decoded.

Hmm.   Sounds like a slightly strange way to do it.   What's the point of
SpamAssassin-scanning a GIF image?

Antony.

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