FYI: PDFInfo and "Max SpamAssassin Size=40k"

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Thu Jul 19 21:43:43 IST 2007



Scott Silva wrote:
> Steve Campbell spake the following on 7/19/2007 10:57 AM:
>   
>> Alex Broens wrote:
>>     
>>> On 7/17/2007 11:49 PM, Michael R. Dilworth wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Just to save some time for some of you, the 40k number
>>>> can is on the small side for some of the PDF spams I've been receiving.
>>>>         
>>> FWI: I'm using:
>>>
>>> Max Spam Check Size = 250000
>>> Max SpamAssassin Size = 2500000
>>>
>>> which, AFAIK are the default SA values.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>> -- 
>>> *Spammer hell has no DSL*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Maybe it's because I'm not up-to-date on my MS, but I don't have a Max
>> Spam Check Size parameter in my configuration file.
>>
>> The only "Size" parms I have are as follows:
>>
>> Maximum Message Size = 0
>> Maximum Attachment Size = -1
>> Minimum Attachment Size = -1
>> ClamAVmodule Maximum File Size = 10000000 # (10 Mbytes)
>> Max SpamAssassin Size = 2500000
>>     
>
> This setting will make mailscanner not send the message to spamassassin if it
> is over this size. Are the pdf spams bigger than that?
>
>
>   
Everyone is missing my point I meant to make.

I don't have the "Max Spam Check Size" in my configuration file to 
change. It could have been missed in an upgrade, but I always use 
Julian's upgrade_MailScanner_conf script and this parm is missing on 3 
different servers.

Steve Campbell




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