> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> > It's generally a bad idea (i.e. not supported) to stick messages
> > larger than 250k through spamassassin. The spamc client refuses to
> > check messages larger than this size, and the example procmailrc in
> > /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/examples/procmailrc.example mentions
> > this.
> >
> > The only reason I haven't closed this bug is because I can't figure
> > out where this is documented. :-)
>
> IMHO, if it's not supported, then spamassassin should do nothing on
> those messages (unless, maybe, some additional flag is used), instead
> of processing them,

I might agree that spamassassin should do nothing on a message that it 
isn't intended to, 

> and we should not need the procmail recipe to 
> checks for the mail size.

...but I can't agree with this. It is very clearly documented in the 
quoted procmail example, and people should read and understand that 
example before using a nuclear device like spamassassin. spam scanning 
in this day is a non-trivial exercise (you might do OCR on attachments 
for example), and administrators need to understand that.

I think this bug should be downgraded, it is surely not an RC bug.

Cheers,

Kjetil


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