Gee, Sandy, are you throwing in the towel already? That's certainly not like you, to be giving up so quickly and easily! ;-)
Ok, I know I wasn't all that "polite" (as you pointed out), but I thought we were having a good spar anyway. Oh well, my bad... Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: Re[6]: [Declude.JunkMail] Test on Imail X-header > > How are queue management and statistical content filtering even > > remotely related to each other? > > Message filtering and delivery have ALWAYS been paired within the > IMail process flow. I don't think you've been polite enough to deserve > an explanation of the similarities in implementation across versions, > but if you do your due diligence in this area perhaps you'll > understand it better. > > > Name some other mail servers that you know combine these processes. > > This isn't about other mail servers. It's about the evolution of a > product from version to version while preserving central paradigms in > order to avoid needless ground-up rewrites. In terms of other mail > servers, unless you're doing streaming content filtering during the > SMTP conversation (which would be resource suicide), you've signed on > to doing post-submission filtering, then delivery. Whether or not > other mail servers have separate filtering and delivery stages, IMail > has historically only had the submission stage and the > filtering/delivery stage, and that it is why it comes as absolutely no > surprise that QM is an high-performance implementation of the same > paired functions. > > > How is it that you can speak so authoritatively about this subject? > > It is so because I know how IMail's process flow has worked in the > past and how it has evolved. I have no professional alignment with > Ipswitch, although I have been part of the requirements gathering > process as a beta tester for several versions. > > -Sandy > > > ------------------------------------ > Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > Broadleaf Systems, a division of > Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------ > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
