On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is a followup to my previous mail about a problem we are seeing at
> $DAYJOB and it is getting serious.
>
> After we upgraded to SA 2.61 as was suggested by this list we had a
> mail-machine crash again when spamd expanded beyond all available
> memory. As far as we can tell it was looking at a 1.2Mb Micro$oft
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Word e-mail, ham and sent to a very senior person. Spamd is set to
> limit children (to 10 I think) but we still had this runaway. The
> system manager is pushing for withdrawing spamassassin as we cannot
> have the mail going catatonic. I am not responsible for this system,
> but was the advocate for adding spamassassin, so this matters to me :-)
As a general rule, spam is not large (usually < 200KB, often under 50KB).
Scanning a 1.2MB document is almost ridiculous.
Most SA installations bypass scanning large messages (over 100KB~200KB).
Check your system to see if there is some way to configure that
behaivor.
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Dave Funk University of Iowa
<dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering
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Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
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