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]]> By: Daryl Laffertyhttp://www.thewebhostinghero.com/tutorials/blocking-spam-using-vdec.html/comment-page-1#comment-10228 Daryl Lafferty Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:33:26 +0000 http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/?p=7366#comment-10228 "Blacklisted email addresses are always rejected. Simple as that."I wish it worked like that. Unfortunately SpamAssassin doesn't inspect messages above a set size, typically about 256K. Examining larger messages takes too much CPU and would slow the system too much. But this means it doesn't even compare the address to the blacklist.I've got one spammer that frequently sends out 2-6 MB spam emails that SpamAssassin ignores. I wish there was a way to stop them. “Blacklisted email addresses are always rejected. Simple as that.”

I wish it worked like that. Unfortunately SpamAssassin doesn’t inspect messages above a set size, typically about 256K. Examining larger messages takes too much CPU and would slow the system too much. But this means it doesn’t even compare the address to the blacklist.

I’ve got one spammer that frequently sends out 2-6 MB spam emails that SpamAssassin ignores. I wish there was a way to stop them.

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