> On 7/20/2010 10:16 PM, Gnanam wrote: >> Does SpamAssassin perform tests/scans on attachments?
On 20.07.10 22:31, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Generally, no. SA skips messages that are larger than a size that you > set in the config file. Most attachments are larger than that size. > Obviously if you have a really small attachment then it will scan it. > > The principle of spamming basically is dependent on small messages. > With small messages you can send scads of them. With large ones you > would take too long. well, I have seen spams (buil, unsolicited) containing large attachments - jpg, doc, pdf... While they are not common (you have described the reason), but they are still annoying, and they are spam (many of them is from stupid marketing companies or idiots who believe their activities are something that most of people should know about). So, there are reasons why we SA might scan them. Of course, SA can scan only text parts, but luckily there are plugins that may convert between different formats, e.g. FuzzyOCR who tries to read images and/or ExtractText that tried to extract text from other formats to get scanned by SA. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
