On 05/08/2014 01:30 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 05/07/2014 02:48 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Yeah, the CPU is largely irrelevant Except for people scanning excessively large emails of several megabytes :-)
I don't know about you, but in my .procmailrc I have a rule that limits how large an email file should be submitted to spamassassin:
Alternatively, use the spamc '-s' option to the max size to be processed. (the end effect is the same of course).
... For some values of "same". The test I describe is done entirely within procmail and does not require forking spamc in the first place. While fork/execl may be much cheaper with *NIX than VMS, which was the whole point back when, its still cheaper not to do it. You are making it very clear that the 20MB files are crippling large for SA and not a cost effective strategy for a spammer. If its a case of sending such as an attachment of 'dump' from you cell phone to your desktop than this is a case of source-based whitelisting to bypass SA. That's easy to set up as a recipe in procmail. Part of the analysis should be 'how often does this happen?' If you only send such data dumps to yourself one in a while then its not worth the hassle. If this happens every day or every week then yes, do something about it. -- "Key escrow to rule them all; key escrow to find them. Key escrow to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of surveillance where Big Brother lies." -- Peter Gutmann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org