On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:42 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> I noticed someone sent me an email and there are no SA heading info in
> the message. SA didn't provide a score or status on the message
> headers for some weird reason. I then checked my mail logs and saw
> this message:
>
> Mar 5 08:52:18 mail spamc[2635]: skipped message, greater than max
> message size (512000 bytes)
spamc has a max message size limit option, and won't pass messages
larger than that to spamd. This is partly to prevent attacks, and
generally to prevent burning too many CPU cycles on a single message.
This is entirely normal. See man spamc for details.
> What does this mean? Should I change configuration settings to make
> sure this doesn't happen? Any advice on what to do is greatly
> appreciated.
Nope, don't change it. It's a default for a reason. :)
Setting this limit higher usually will not even catch more spam, since
almost no spam exceeds that size. Typically, they are *much* smaller.
However, ham with large attachments would then also be processed.
Unless you get a significant amount of really large spam, *and* have a
beefy machine, don't fiddle with that option.
guenther
--
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; }}}
