<html><body><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I am currently experiencing quite some spam messages which are not caught by MailScanner (about one every 5 minutes) because of the "Max Spam Check Size" parameter in MailScanner.conf<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div># Spammers do not have the power to send out huge messages to everyone as<br># it costs them too much (more smaller messages makes more profit than less<br># very large messages). So if a message is bigger than a certain size, it<br># is highly unlikely to be spam. Limiting this saves a lot of time checking<br># huge messages.<br># Disable this option by setting it to a huge value.<br># This is measured in bytes.<br># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.<br>Max Spam Check Size = 200k</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>After reviewing the log files, all messages which are uncaught have a size between 200k and 225k (most arround 215k) and look to be targeted to get past a MailScanner installation</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I would suggest to set the new default value for this parameter from 200k to at least 300k in a future MailScanner version.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div>Met vriendelijke groet, Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Thom van der Boon</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">E-Mail: thom@vdb.nl</span></div><div><br></div><div><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">=====</span></div><div><br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Thom.H. van der Boon b.v.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Transito 4</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">6909 DA Babberich<br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Tel.: +31 (0)88 4272727</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Fax: +31 (0)88 4272789</span><br style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Home Page: http://www.vdb.nl/</span></div></div></div></body></html>