Re: smtp keep-alive message possibility

["d tbsky" <tbskyd@gmail.com>]

hi:
  qmail-scanner can skip clamav when encounter big mails.
the default is 100M. we now set to 5 MB for safety..
 i hope  there is a better way...

Regards,
tbskyd

2006/12/12, 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