Large emails being tagged as spam - false positives

[Julian Field]

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Matt Kettler wrote:
> Alex Broens wrote:
>   
>> just as a side note:
>>
>> Had MailScanner not scanned this msg, due to its overall size, this FP
>> (any possibly others) could have been easily avoided.
>>
>> - Supports the SpamC logic of NOT sending msgs larger than X thru SA -
>>     
>
> While it's true that would have avoided the FP, it would not have helped if the
> message was shorter.
>
> Personally, I'm strongly opposed to solutions that cover up the problem. In this
> case, the problem is in how SA interpreted the message headers, and applies
> equally to short and long messages. Advocating this as a reason to skip large
> messages is advocating covering up the real problem.
>
> That said, I don't think that MailScanner's "clip it off" approach is a
> particularly good one, however it has NEVER caused a problem at my site, and
> I've been using MailScanner for several years now (since at least July of 2002).
> Apparently some folks do have problems with it, but I have yet to see one.
>   
And hopefully the new more complex settings of Max SpamAssassin Size 
that you can use if you want, will help to alleviate the problem. Take a 
look at the Change Log.

Jules

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