file sizes and scanning

[Kevin Miller]

Julian Field wrote:
> 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.

Thanks guys for the clarification.  That makes a lot of sense.  (Senior
moment here: why did I expect less!)

Have a great weekend...


...Kevin
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