Re: [Exim] maximum filter length

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Author: kimoexim
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] maximum filter length
>> I was thinking of implementing a filter on particular address that
>> will search the message body for somewhere around 3000+ keywords. Is
>> there a maximum length that the filter can be? or maximum amount of
>> searches that can/should be done on an email?
>
> I have used message_body_visible = 8000 previously.
>
> BTW, what exactly are you filtering for in this case?


I would like for every email to abuse@ to be checked for my IP range (/18
split into /30s), and if it contains the ip, then log it. I'm not really
worried about the logging part, just whether a filter can be that long and
what affects it would have on the server.

Thanks
Kimo