[Mimedefang] New spam kills mimedefang/spamassassin with newlines

[Rob]

On Sunday, August 22, 2004 7:55 AM, Martin Blapp <> danced on the keyboard and
produced:
> I found out that if one adds 20'000 newlines to a mail,
> spamassassin uses a very high amount of ram (~200MB) or
> even more if you have more newlines. This is too much
> for mimedefang, so the same mail gets killed and killed
> over and again. Spamassassin seems to read all lines into
> it's memory and allocates some structures for each line
> (even the empty ones).

Have you reported this to the SA folks?


PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list.  Email sent directly to me may be
ignored utterly. 

-- 
Rob | What part of "no" was it you didn't understand?