#96 upper limit to scanned email size

[Pierre Bru]

hello,

SpamBayes is a client-side plugin and so, need to
download the email in order to scan it. this can be a
pain in case of remote connected seesion...

typically, SPAM are small emails. it could be great to
be able to setup an upper limit to the size of email
SpamBayes try to scan.

have a nice day,
Pierre.

[Tony Meyer]

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Which SpamBayes application are you using? If it's the
Outlook plug-in, then this doesn't make sense, because
SpamBayes only finds out about the mail when it has arrived.
If it's sb_server, this also doesn't make sense, because
SpamBayes is acting as a proxy - it's only processing mail
when the mail client is already downloading it - it doesn't
result in any extra traffic between the server and your
machine.

If, however, you're using sb_imapfilter, then this could be
relevant. If you are, and really want this feature, then put a
note confirming that here, otherwise I'll close this.

[Pierre Bru]

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I use the Outlook plugin.

YES, the mail has _arrived_... but on the Exchange server
not on the client (outlook). as the outlook plugin runs on
the client side, in order to tokenize the email to give it a
score, it has to read each and every word of the email which
is _arrived_ but still lives on the Exchange server, and so
download it from the server to the client.

on an ethernet connection, there is no problem. but when
outlook runs on a laptop connected to the exchange server
via a telephone line, it may be a pain.

Pierre.

[Altu Faltu]

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Hi, I agree with Pierre.

I'm using Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2003 server. When connecte dthrough dial-up, Outlook gets smart and downloads only headers of new messages.

However, Spambayes tries to scan full messages and ends-up downloading full messages. Outlook kind of hangs during this.

It will be good to have Spambayes not scan messages greater than a configurable size limit.

Does it scan attachments too? or is it possible to scan only message body excluding attachments? Most of the big messages are because of big attachments and it seems that Spambayes makes Outlook download everything.

Please see to it.

Thanks,
Altu Faltu