Ignore large attachments??

Brian Lewis test at NEXTMILL.NET
Thu Jul 1 21:39:02 IST 2004


Is there a setting in MailScanner to ignore large attachments?  I want to
never scan/extract/analyze messages that have attachments over say 3
megs.  This is because the chance of a message over 3 megs being spam or a
virus is pretty much improbable.  Is there a setting I can change
somewhere?  I've looked and couldn't find such a setting and would
appreciate any and all advise I can get.  Expanding large attachments
places a great load and increases the likelyhood off hitting the timeout
or maxsize settings for the expansion process, sometimes causing a Denial
of Service message to be generated and incorrectly tagging the message as
spam.  Since these larger attachment messages are legit I'd rather just
not have the scanner process them at all except to allow them thru.

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