Re: [AMaViS-user] Maximum message size to scan

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Old 08-31-2005
Mark Martinec
 
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Default Re: [AMaViS-user] Maximum message size to scan

Martin,

> I have seen a couple of spams bypass our spamassassin scan because they
> are larger than the 200KB default $sa_mail_body_size_limit. I'm thinking
> about raising that limit to 512KB. If anyone have raised it, what size
> have you configured it to? Has it done a huge impact on the load?


You can try. The CPU time consumed by SA regexp rules goes linearly
with mail size, so if you can afford it, and you are seeing larger spam
messages, increase the limit somewhat - e.g. to the largest spam size
that came through recently.

Mark


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