On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 09:05 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> There was a discussion over on the amavisd-users group about this a
> while back.
> Spammers are starting to include HUGE images (what do they care how
> much processing the zombots do?)
Well, it does decrease their throughput, sending out less spam. Granted,
faster hardware and lines make this more worthwhile...
> Others have suggested that increasing that limit may create an
> exponential increase in scan times.
As RW just said, this doesn't affect all rules. Body rules for example
only see text parts, no binary attachments. Full rules however may
suffer severely indeed.
> What amavisd-new finally did was to pass the first (x) bytes to SA so
> that at least the spam didn't get a RBL free pass.
>
> Nothing like that in spamd/spamc, but why not open a bug?
Because it *is* filed already. Please first search bugzilla, then open
a bug report.
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char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu...@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
