Ignore large attachments?? {Scanned}

[Scott Silva]

Scott Silva wrote --

| 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.
|
 You can set the maximum size scanned with spamassassin since this would be
the
slowest and most processor intensive task with large attachments. But I
would still
virus scan everything, regardless of size, just for safety sake.

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    Along comes a bigger mouse!!!




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