Hi Ed,

My qmail-scanner didn't puke. :-)

What if somebody sends a big file attachment, say 30mb. How does qmail-scanner deal
with it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: Ronneil Camara; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Qmail-scanner-general]URGENT: qmail-scanner is installed
> but.....
> 
> 
> > Hi. It's fixed now, hopefully. I made it from 6mb to 8mb. :-)
> >
> 
> 
> One way to test for sure is to send a tarred and gzipped 
> EICAR test virus as
> an attachment.  This combination (tar and gzip) seems to use 
> the greatest
> amount of memory and will test if your softlimit is set high 
> enough.  I
> found this out one day while testing my system.  My softlimit was high
> enough for .zip attachments but would puke on tar.gz 
> attachments until I
> upped softlimit at little bit more.
> 
> I have an EICAR test file on my website if you want to get a 
> copy then send
> it as an email attachment thru your mail server.  Get the file from:
>    http://www.certainty.net/av/eicar.tar.gz
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Ed.
> 
> 

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