sa_mail_body_size_limit and attachments

Henrik K hege at hege.li
Fri Feb 25 06:37:28 CET 2022


On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 02:31:09PM -0500, Alex wrote:
> 
> I identified an 8MB false-positive.

And what rules caused it to be a false-positive?  Size doesn't matter here. 
Fix the rules, add whitelisting etc.

> Is it the case that spammers are sending malware as large as 8MB files now?

Why wouldn't they?  Bandwidth costs nothing and most servers these days even
accept 50-100MB mails.  This is why amavisd started truncating scanned
messages in 2009, instead of just skipping processing.  SA 3.4.3+ also have
mitigations to happily scan huge messages.



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