On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:07:10PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:52:10PM -0400, christophe barbé wrote: > > I got a mail with sample.exe (2.4MB) attachment. This mail has not been > > scanned by spamassassin. I don't understand why. I use a procmail rule > > as below : > > spamassassin, by default, does not check messages larger than 250k. Messages > larger than 250k take way too long to scan because of the regexps used, and > large messages are rarely spam. > > -- > Duncan Findlay First my apologies because this message was intended for debian-users where it would have been less OT. Now Thanks for your replies (Colin too). I was aware of -f (I put it voluntarily) I hope it is not the reason and I will write a script to know how much mails have been ignored by spamassassin. I guess I noticed this one was not scanned by spamassassin because it obviously should have been tagged as spam, so perhaps this is something that happen regularly. I was not aware of this 250k limit. I would have expected spamassassin to check at least the header in this case. I looks enough to detect it as a spam. I am so used of the spamassasssin efficiency ... Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E A qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent. (Intelligenti pauca.)
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