I had a similar sort of morning, got the sniffer demo, and I've been
watching the mailserver slowly die. My declude log for today has a lot of
"external program didn't respond in an hour so skip it" messages, so I
commented sniffer back out of my global.cfg. Took a while, but all the gunk
in the queue flushed out and I'm back to more normal speed.

And I am running IMail 6, not 7, and Declude 1.44.

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Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] SortMonster Sniffer




Sorry if this is off-topic, the more direct mailing list is closed to
non-subscribers.

My setup:

Twin 1G proc.
1G RAM
20x5G 10K RPM SCSI RAID 5 for OS + programs + mailboxes (Separate Adaptec
Controller) (C: D:)
20G 10K RPM Mirrored SCSI Set for spool + logging (Separate Adaptec
Controller) (E:)

Running:

Latest Imail + hotfixes/patches
Declude Virus (latest beta)
Declude JunkMail (latest beta)

With the recent demise of ORBZ, I decided to try out Sniffer. My results
were less than pleasing :-(

I first defined SNIFFER as an external test to fit into my weighting scheme:

SNIFFER external        nonzero "E:\sniffer\SNFDemo.exe 00000000"       15      0

It seemed to work right away, there were no errors (immediately) in the logs
of Declude or Sniffer. Sniffer was checking (passing + failing) messages
left and right. Declude was also processing SPAM and VIRUS messages properly
(test messages were sent through and verified for each instance).

After several minutes I noticed that the number of running processes had
jumped a bit, and became concerned. Looking back at a refreshed copy of the
logfiles for both programs (Sniffer + Declude) I saw no problems reported
but an occasional timeout of a virus scanning process. This isn't normal,
and I have more machine than necessary. Processes kept piling up and
eventually everything slowed to a halt eventually killing SMTPD32. There
were so many outstanding declude, smtp32, and SNFDemo processes that I had
to restart the machine for a quick out.

Is there a problem running these 3 (2.5?) products together?
With no errors logged other than virus scanner timeouts, I don't have much
to go on. Declude, and Sniffer were "working" properly right up until their
demise as far as the logging goes.


** Is it possible Sniffer and Declude Virus were stepping on each others
toes accessing the file for scanning?



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