Re: new spam using large images

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Charles Gregory<cgregory@...> wrote:
> Hmmmm. Big question for developers: Does the performance 'burden' of a large
> e-mail come from the 'reading' of that mail into spamassassin and initial
> processing? Or is the 'cost' of a large message only 'paid' when SA attempts
> to run 'rawbody' or 'full' rules against the entire message?

There is very little load for reading in a message.  It's all about
the running of rules.  Some rules "cost" more than others, "full", for
example.