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.
>

So I generated the filter and it is a larger than 1meg. Exim says
/root/.forward is too big (max 1048576)

Is there any way to increase the limit? or set it to unlimited?

Thanks
Kimo