email receives 'Message is too big for spam checks' anddisappears

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 09:57:19 CET 2007


On 28/02/07, Greg Krzeszkowski <gregk at infosecsolutions.com.au> wrote:
> > Greg Krzeszkowski wrote:
> >
> > > I've got a situation where a particular email is being logged as too big for
> > > spam checks and then isn't delivered to the user, isn't quarantined, isn't
> > > forwarded to my spam collector and no further log entries exist.   What
> > > troubleshooting steps should I be taking?
> > >
> > > I'm running 4.58-9 (installed yesterday!)
> > >
> > > log entries are as below:
> > >
> > [snip]
> > > 15:09:06 localhost MailScanner[30332]: Spam Checks: Starting Feb 27 15:09:06
> > > localhost MailScanner[30332]: Message l1R48jIp009634 from 192.168.1.254
> > > (removed) to removed is too big for spam checks (588341 > 150000 bytes)
> > --^^^^^^^^^
> > That _removed_ should be clear enough, is what you have in your configuration.
> > --
> > René Berber
>
>
> I put that text in to obfuscate the email address info...
>
> it actually was (sender_email_address) to recipient_domain
Right, and it is nowhere visible in your incoming queue?
As a stopgap/permanent solution, do as Res suggests.

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