On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:26, Nigel Horne shaped the electrons to say:
> On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 14:18, Ted Fines wrote:
> > FOUR MINUTES, 13 SECONDS for an 800k email.
>
> Look at the file again. It is NOT an 800k mail. It is over 200 emails
> embedded within each other. By definition the largest message is about 800K
> and the smallest is about 1K give or take, giving an average of 400K (don't
> worry if the maths isn't too accurate). So thats about 200x400K = c.80Mb.
> 0.80 didn't scan it properly and would have let a virus through, 0.83 fixes
> that bug.

My dillema is now this, we cannot upgrade to any version above 0.80 due to 
oversized mails potentially causing a DOS. What functionality am I missing 
out on (in a nutshell) by running 0.80? 
Are there many viruses that I will not be able to catch?

Is there potentially a work around for these types of mails?

regards
-- 
Scott Ryan
Telkom Internet
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