Re: [exim] Message size checks on spam ACLs

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Author: Dave Lugo
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Message size checks on spam ACLs
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, John Horne wrote:
>
> Yes, I too have been following this. What I find a little confusing though
> is that the spamc man page states:
>
>   -s max_size
>        Set the maximum message size which will be sent to spamd -- any
>        bigger than this threshold and the message will be returned
>        unpro-cessed (default: 250k).  If spamc gets handed a message bigger
>        than this, it won’t be passed to spamd.

>
> To that extent, reading the last line, it shouldn't really matter what
> size the message is since spamc/spamd won't process it if it is larger
> than the '-s' size.
>



If you're calling SA from exiscan or 4.5x's DATA acl, spamc doesn't
come into play, so spamd (AFAIK) will take whatever you send it.


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