> -----Original Message----- > From: decoder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:23 PM > To: Rick Cooper > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Discourage broken content > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rick Cooper wrote: > > > >> -----Original Message----- From: decoder > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:24 > >> PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Discourage > >> broken content > >> > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [...] > >> > >> I've heard that it truncates the mail at 30kb, no matter if that > >> is within a MIME block or not... So my plugin gets a broken > >> image.. though it was not broken originally... > >> > > > > That is patently false. I have a graphics design/advertising > > department at one of my locations and these fellas send huge > > graphics files back and forth when they have emergency > > proofs/changes and MailScanner has *never* damaged anything, ever, > > anywhere. Now, there is a setting for scanning (much like exiscan > > IIRCC) that allows you to truncate the message and only scan xxx > > amount, it's optional and doesn't modify the actual message in > > anyway. > > > > Rick > I did not say it damages the mail. I said it feds only a given amount > of the message to SpamAssassin and THAT breaks plugins requiring the > whole message, especially when MailScanner breaks messages in the > middle of attachments. > > And as far as I know, it is the default setting of mailscanner to feed > only a given amount of kb to SpamAssassin. That does not mean it > truncates the message before delivering it. >
My apologies, the way I interpreted the original I thought you were saying it truncates the email and breaks they message. I will bring this up on the Mailscanner list that the default, given the recent image spams, should be disabled so the entire message is sent to spam assassin. Before the current spat of image spam you could generally tell within 20k or so if a message was spam or not, this is not the case in today's world and the entire message really should be fed to SA. I have never used the default setting myself. Rick -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
