4.57.5: Max Spam Check Size

Res res at ausics.net
Fri Dec 15 22:46:40 GMT 2006


On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> With MS 4.57.5, and Max Spam Check Size = 150000, I notice
> that some image spam is getting through, mostly image-spam.
> I got one this morning that is 650K.  If the Check Size value
> is set to zero, is that the same as turning it off?  (This
> should be noted in the MailScanner.conf comments).  Has anybody
> changed this value from the default, and what happened when

I changed mine to use a meg as I also found 150k to be next to useless,
the theory behind it that it costs the spammers to do bigger size msgs? 
sorry, thats just wrong with the methods they use today, it costs them 
no more to send a 10K or 1M

I agree this needs a disable value

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Res

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