On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:17 PM, cyboc wrote: > > We have been receiving 419 spam with extremely long lists of email addresses > in the To: header. I'm talking hundreds of addresses. > > I've noticed that the same email addresses keep on appearing near my user's > email address in the To: header. I have created a rule to check for those > particular email addresses but unfortunately, it seems that SpamAssassin (at > least my configuration) has some limit on how far it will check in the To: > header. If the addresses I'm scanning for are too far down the list of > addresses, SpamAssassin doesn't seem to detect them. I'm not sure if the > limit is size based (e.g. 10 KB) or number of addresses based (e.g. 350 > email addresses). > > I'm running version 3.3.1 of SpamAssassin. Is there some setting I can > change to increase the (apparent) limit?
Pretty sure it's hardcoded at 8k. This was done several years ago to protect against DoS type situations. Michael > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Is-there-a-header-size-limit-on-To%3A-header-rules--tp33721936p33721936.html > Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
