Hi there We're having problems with a particular class of email. >400K in size, text-only. spamd takes 40-80sec to process it, and spamc is set with a 30sec timeout. The long processing time isn't network-related: it's all those "body" searches that are causing the hang.
Obviously there are several things that could be done. Increase spamc timeout or reduce the limit of the maxsize handed off to spamc. However, they are both already non-default for good reasons, so I'd rather not fiddle with them for such a corner-case. So are there any other options? Allowing spamd to only scan the first 50KB of text attachments would do the trick. I can't think of a way that could be misused by spammers? (ie they aren't going to send text-spam where the first 50KB is "bayes killer" and the final bit is the spam - potential customers won't scroll past the first couple of screens to find the spam). Or a spamd-based "max-runtime" setting? -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
