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Re: Scanning large-body spam
From: Charles Gregory <cgregory_at_nospam>Date: Wed Mar 31 2010 - 21:43:25 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Mark Martinec wrote:
> .... and let it handle arbitrary size messages by avoiding its current
> paradigm of keeping the entire message in memory.
Is there really a problem with the in-memory size? I would have thought
the major concern was the processing time for evaluating 'full' (and
rawbody?) rules on a large message....
> Anyway, the amavisd glue to SpamAssassin does just that: let SpamAssassin
> see only the first 400 kB (configurable) of a large message, then edit
> the original message based on results obtained from SpamAssassin.
Good for amavis-d, but not for those of us relying on SA to do the whole
job, and not have our MTA's perform any further message modification....
I would be interested in having some of the developers offer an opinion on
this. Where is the real 'cost' in running SA against a large message? Is
it just the memory used? Or is it, as I suspect, the use of 'full' rules?
- Charles