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<P><FONT SIZE=2># SpamAssassin is not very fast when scanning huge messages, so messages</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2># bigger than this value will be truncated to this length for SpamAssassin</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2># testing. The original message will not be affected by this. This value</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2># is a good compromise as very few spam messages are bigger than this.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Max SpamAssassin Size = 90000</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>(don't know how I missed this stnd option)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If I am reading this correctly, SA will still scan a 100000 byte message but it will only scan the first 90000 bytes. By nature of the second sentence, wouldn't it be a good idea to (have the option to) pass these messages unscanned rather than scan 90K (or 30K which seems to be the new default) of a message that is most likely not spam anyway?</FONT></P>
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