Error: 'Regular expression too big' when PURBL looks up URLs in an email

Author: Luis Fernandes July 11, 2020 13:23

Versions / Builds Affected

2012 / 20121218

Status

Resolved

Problem Summary

When receiving certain emails, the scan time of them is delayed because of the antiphishing lookup.

TT / JIRAID

478

How to Identify

In the ase_purbl logs, this warning is present: 2012-08-22,20:43:36,584,2,"#0009a9a8","#00001898","warning","ase_purbl","Runtime Error Thrown while checking for url's - Error Message: Regular expression too big"

Workaround / Fix Details

Upgrade customer to GFI MailEssentials 2015 or later

Required Actions