message size

[Julian Field]

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Jon Fraley wrote:

>I have been asked to report on the message size for messages being
>processed by MailScanner 4.40.11.  I have to be able to break it down by
>spam and not spam.  Is there an easy way to do this?  Looking in the
>logs I see where it gives the size in bytes.  I have a question on the
>following situation:
>
>Apr 20 04:22:35 yoda MailScanner[10025]: New Batch: Found 3 messages
>waiting
>Apr 20 04:22:35 yoda MailScanner[10025]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
>4654 bytes
>Apr 20 04:22:35 yoda MailScanner[10025]: Spam Checks: Starting
>
>Is this the size for both messages?
>
This is the total size of both messages. You would be better off getting
the size of each message from the MTA logs. This will also give you the
message ID for each message. You can then tie this to the spam logging
generated by MailScanner, which will tell you if a message ID is spam or
not.

>  Not sure I understand how the
>processing goes at this point.
>
>Thanks for you help
>
>Jon
>
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PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

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