RE: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-15 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> From: Evan Platt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: > > > > We just received a 419 spam with a 642 KB JPG file. It would be nice > if SpamAssassin could at least look at the text of messages like that. > > > > > Wouldn't FuzzyOCR pick up on that? Not if spamc never passes

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-15 Thread Evan Platt
Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: We just received a 419 spam with a 642 KB JPG file. It would be nice if SpamAssassin could at least look at the text of messages like that. Wouldn't FuzzyOCR pick up on that?

RE: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-15 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: > >> From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> The samples I looked at could easily be stopped otherwise (I don't > >> "usuall" get a lot of lottery mail with a large .tif from a gmail > >> address!!). but it's not worth t

RE: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2008, mouss wrote: > > > > don't use RDJ. use a recent version of SA and use sa-update. I use > > 3.2.5 with JM Sought rules and few SARE rules. The latter haven't > > been updated since long, but this is normal (they are considered > > stable). > >

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-15 Thread mouss
Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The samples I looked at could easily be stopped otherwise (I don't "usuall" get a lot of lottery mail with a large .tif from a gmail address!!). but it's not worth the pain. if spammers start sending large messages, things will cha

RE: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-15 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The samples I looked at could easily be stopped otherwise (I don't > "usuall" get a lot of lottery mail with a large .tif from a gmail > address!!). but it's not worth the pain. if spammers start sending > large > messages, things will change... We just

RE: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Sorry, the feature of not SA scanning if the message is 'large'. -- martin -Original Message- From: mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 8:25 PM Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Skip scanning for large mails Martin.Hepworth wrote:

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread mouss
Martin.Hepworth wrote: Depends on you call SA.. Mailscanner for one has this feature. sorry, I don't understand what feature you are talking about. my point was that the number of large spam messages is too low for me to spend SA processing on it. The samples I looked at could easily be st

RE: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Depends on you call SA.. Mailscanner for one has this feature. martin -Original Message- From: mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:42 PM Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Skip scanning for large mails RobertH wrote: >> From: mouss >

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread mouss
RobertH wrote: From: mouss > 1MB is probably too large. There is not much spam with such size (although few ones were reported here). What has the studies of the average and realistic maximum of spam email sizes concluded? Was the conclusion the SA default size? I am not aware of any s

RE: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread RobertH
> From: mouss > > > 1MB is probably too large. There is not much spam with such size > (although few ones were reported here). > > What has the studies of the average and realistic maximum of spam email sizes concluded? Was the conclusion the SA default size? - rh

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 07:57 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have reduced the size of what gets sent thru SA in my .procmailrc, first to > 50k a few months ago, and just now to 20k, as I am running Fedora 8 here and > often have lags that can last 2-3 minutes. Am I on the right track to speed > t

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 September 2008, mouss wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> There are rumors floating around that the python being shipped by >> redhat/fedora is about 100x slower than python installed from the >> tarballs. > >python? do you mean perl? > Possibly, at my age, CRS can be a problem. :) I not

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread mouss
Gene Heskett wrote: There are rumors floating around that the python being shipped by redhat/fedora is about 100x slower than python installed from the tarballs. python? do you mean perl? Can this be confirmed? See the recent thread "using RHEL / CentOS / Fedora perl?" I have reduced

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 September 2008, Felix Buenemann wrote: >Andrzej Adam Filip schrieb: >> Felix Buenemann<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> is it possible to skip scanning with spamc for large mails? (eg.> 1MB) >>> >>> I receive lots of huge mail (15-30MByte) on my server an the scanning >>> takes very l

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread Felix Buenemann
Andrzej Adam Filip schrieb: Felix Buenemann<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is it possible to skip scanning with spamc for large mails? (eg.> 1MB) I receive lots of huge mail (15-30MByte) on my server an the scanning takes very long for those mails, that will be ham anyways. Best Regards, Feli

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread mouss
Felix Buenemann wrote: Hi, is it possible to skip scanning with spamc for large mails? (eg. > 1MB) I receive lots of huge mail (15-30MByte) on my server an the scanning takes very long for those mails, that will be ham anyways. 1MB is probably too large. There is not much spam with such siz

Re: Skip scanning for large mails

2008-09-13 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Felix Buenemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it possible to skip scanning with spamc for large mails? (eg. > 1MB) > > I receive lots of huge mail (15-30MByte) on my server an the scanning > takes very long for those mails, that will be ham anyways. > > Best Regards, >Felix Buenemann -s m