Re: smtp keep-alive message possibility

[Daniel Cañas Montero <dcm@intnet.co.cr>]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Richard Archer wrote:

> At 6:17 PM +0800 11/12/06, d tbsky wrote:
>
> > we use qmail-scanner and clamav for virus scans.  it would
> > take about 70 seconds to scan a 15 MB email.
> Clamav says:
>
> # Files in archives larger than this limit won't be scanned.
> # Value of 0 disables the limit.
> # Default: 10M
>
> Sounds like there's a good reason for that default :)
>
>  ...R.

This option is for archives only.
There is no mechanism in clamav to skip messages larger than a  
certain size.
The user has to do that before passing the message to clamav.

There also is the option "StreamMaxLength" but that closes the  
connection when the data size reaches the value specified.
Resulting in the message being rejected.

-- Daniel Alberto