[Mimedefang] again - Overlong line in RESULTS file

[Jeff Rife]

On 20 Sep 2004 at 10:15, Kelson wrote:

> Mainly, this is the Tripwire ruleset, which looks for unusual letter 
> combinations and assigns a low score to each, the idea being that if 
> something has just a few, like an alphanumeric confirmation number, it 
> won't cause a false positive, but if it has a lot, it will trigger many 
> of these rules and result in a big boost to the spam score.  If you're 
> adding the spam report to the headers, a lot of its on tripwire can 
> easily stretch that report past 8K.

There must be a *lot* that needs to hit to cause this problem.

I had one e-mail that hit 130 of the Tripwire rules, and it came 
through to me, which I guess means that it didn't hit the limit.


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