Hi Scott, Just to clarify...is this problem occurring with 2.04? Just wanted to check before I updated.
Thanks, Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 7:43 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude 2.0 -> crash >We've gone back to 1.82 as well. > >We'll wait again until 2.0 is proven stable. Declude hasn't been like what >has been in the past. Just to let people know a bit about this -- the source of the crash was identified pretty quickly. And a change could have been made almost as quickly to prevent the crash. However, in this case, the D*.SMD files (the ones containing the E-mail body) were disappearing -- a situation that should (in theory) never happen. There are causes for this (such as an on-access virus scanner), but they aren't very common. So my advice was that rather than just fix the crash, further investigation should be done to determine why those files were disappearing. That way, we can have a new release that fixes the crash without running the risk of people noticing a new problem (that they weren't seeing simply because the crash occurred). With software, there are often minor issues that come up that don't get addressed because they seem so minor or aren't being reported. Yet many times when this happens, a bigger bug appears later that would have been fixed if the minor issue had been dealt with right away. I've seen this a number of times with software I've worked on that nobody but myself runs. One out of a hundred times, something that isn't quite right will appear. The thought process is "Gee, it would be a good idea to look into that to see why it happened, but it would be a lot of work tracking it down; I'll deal with that later." With a program that only I run, that's fine. But for software that 1,000s of people are running, most of whom consider E-mail to be mission critical, I think it is best to wait and have it done right. And, to take credit away from where it should be taken (or whatever the opposite of "giving credit where it is due" is), the crash is occurring in code that I wrote. -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers since 2000. Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver vulnerability detection. Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. --- [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.
