Re: A developers perspective on Spamassassin

2010-06-26 Thread Henrik K
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:51:14AM -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On 25-Jun-2010, at 10:50, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > SA would parse the entire attachment except that there's a default setting > > saying to stop processing after a certain amount of KB of > > data has been processed. The idea is that

Re: A developers perspective on Spamassassin

2010-06-26 Thread LuKreme
On 25-Jun-2010, at 10:50, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > SA would parse the entire attachment except that there's a default setting > saying to stop processing after a certain amount of KB of > data has been processed. The idea is that a spammer isn't going to send > a large attachment on every spam.

Re: A developers perspective on Spamassassin

2010-06-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Ashish, SA itself mainly does rule matching, it reads the decoded mail line by line, comparing it to it's rules and (optionally) bays database. SA would parse the entire attachment except that there's a default setting saying to stop processing after a certain amount of KB of data has been

Re: A developers perspective on Spamassassin

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 6/25/10 7:53 AM, Sharma, Ashish wrote: Hi, I want to know how spamassassin works from a developers point of view, specifically I want an answer to following questions: 1. How is an email rendered on spamassassin once it's received? I am not one of the spamassassin developers, but I am

A developers perspective on Spamassassin

2010-06-25 Thread Sharma, Ashish
Hi, I want to know how spamassassin works from a developers point of view, specifically I want an answer to following questions: 1. How is an email rendered on spamassassin once it's received? 2. How are email attachments handled on spamassassin for rule parsing? 3. How is spamassassin able to