[Mimedefang] Huge messages causing "try again later"

[sysadmin at omsoft.com]

Here is a copy of my mimedefang-filter:
	http://www2.dcn.org/omsoft/mimedefang-filter.txt

iostat does't seem to think that the drive /var/spool/MIMEDefang is on is too 
busy.

Thanks,

Lucas

On 25 Feb 2004 at 11:20, Michael Sims wrote:

> [quoting rearranged]
>
> > I have not changed that part of mimedefang-filter, it still does the
> > check. Do you suggest that I add a similar check for all messages in
> > filter_begin?
> 
> No.  MD should not have any problems with large messages unless your filter
> is calling SpamAssassin on them or doing some sort of other intensive scan.
> Personally I would never bypass MD on any message, because my filter does
> critical things on both incoming and outgoing mail (like, for example,
> discarding virus-generated spam with .pif attachments).  I suppose a large
> message could cause a problem if your spool volume is on a slow drive, since
> MD has to create a work directory and write the message to it, but if that
> were the case I would think you would have issues constantly, with messages
> of all sizes.  If you want to send me your filter off-list (or post a link
> to it) I can take a quick look and see if anything jumps out...