file sizes and scanning

[Julian Field]

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Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Kevin Miller wrote:
>
>> I know that files over N bytes (settable in the conf file) aren't
>> spam scanned, but am umclear as to whether they are subsequently
>> virus scanned.  Is that skipped too, or is it just the spam filtering
>> that is circumvented?
>>
>
> Everything is virus scanned.  The first X bytes (defaults to 30000) of
> every attachment is also scanned by SA.

Just to confirm, files over N bytes are spam scanned, just only the
first N bytes of them. You don't need the whole of a 100MByte mail
message to decide if it is spam or not, so I don't waste time making it
handle the whole message when it's huge.

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