[Mimedefang] Still timeout errors - mail rejected

[Rich West]

Ok.. how would one do let large files pass through unfiltered?  Or, at 
the very least, unfiltered through spamassassin?

Just curious, really. :)

-Rich


Jeff Heinen wrote:

>There have been some mention of not only adjusting timeouts, but also
>letting overly large (>500k) messages pass the filters unchecked. The large
>amount of text in documents of that size might just take a much longer
>amount of time when compared with other emails. (Plus, spam tends to be
><20k, otherwise, it would take the spammer too long to send each message.
>
>And yes, from what I've seen SA needs another patch or two, but they are
>getting there. My problem is just keeping the rules updated fast enough.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich West [mailto:Rich.West at divatv.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:20 AM
>To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
>Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Still timeout errors - mail rejected
>
>
>Also, check the mailing list archives (we need to get them to install 
>hitDig or something. :).. a number of folks, myself included, have hit 
>similar problems.
>
>The Anomy perl warning messages can safely be ignored.  They are just 
>warnings, and nothing more than that.  If anything, they are annoying 
>and make the sendmail logs huge over time.
>
>Mail::SpamAssassin 2.x seems to have some rather painful problems.  I 
>was experiencing a base64 error and a subsequent timeout when I had 
>SpamAssassin 2.01 installed and configured.  The client was simply 
>sending a 700k MS word doc which contained pictures and text.  I removed 
>the call to spam assassin from the mimedefang config, and the mail 
>processing began working as expected.
>
>So, I would suspect your problem to be with SpamAssassin, as was mine.
>
>A couple of people suggested trying out the older SpamAssassin (v 1.5) 
>which is no longer available on the spamassassin web site.
>
>I haven't tried it out yet, though, so I cannot attest to how it will 
>work for you..
>
>-Rich
>
>
>
>
>David F. Skoll wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pekka Saari wrote:
>>
>>Oops, sorry; I should have read further and noticed that you posted
>>the filter. :-)
>>
>>Try taking out the Spam Assassin call.  I think SA may be a little buggy
>>and sometimes run for a very long time.
>>