Hi,
There's no requirement that the storage mechanism that IMail uses should
be understandable by anything other than an IMail process.
That would be great if the "the storage mechanism that IMail uses" has no
other impact. However, by now two incidents hare occured where the new
mechanism has some impact. A mail archiving tool and a virusscanner. Both
finding mails that should no longer be there.
They are both looking at an internal structure the format of which may
be changed at each new relaease.
Right. So when that happens I will have to look into it.
What I am asking for is in line with your suggestion, that only IMail now
how things work, I would then like IMail to have a mechanism to
circumvent
the impact of the changes made. In my case a way to force purging a
mailbox.
And what if the next release compresses each message in the mailbox? Are
you then going to ask for an option to not compress it?
Maybe, if THAT is the only way I can detect virusses still present in a
mailbox and it is considered a functionality we do not want to do without I
might request it. On the other hand, I might ask f-prot to not only
understand encoded files in e-mails but to also understand compressed IMail
mailboxes. Of course, if Ipswitch decides to use a standard compression
format like RAR or ZIP I would not even have to ask f-prot for any extra
functionality as it allready understands those formats.
Your suggestion would be the same like "nothing needs to understand the
filesytem but the OS". That's great as long as the OS has ALL the toold
needed for both normal operations as well as problem situations. As we
both
know that is not the case there are multiple tools that understand what a
FAT, NTFS, etc filesystem is.
The tools either use defined APIs or need to be upgraded whenever the
structure of the filesystem changes. Your complaint about IMail is like
complaining that Microsoft implementing NTFS makes your old Norton DOS
Utilities no longer work.
Fortunately new tools came available, so that would be equivalent to the new
version of f-prot finding virusses in the new IMail mailboxes. If those new
tools for the NTFS system would not have come, there would have been huge
pressure on Microsoft to make those tools available.
You should be complaining to the implementors of your mail archiving
tool and virus scanner, not to Ipswitch.
Of course that is one way. However, my feature request was there for two
reaons, one was the request to have the purging be done during off-hours
that way keeping the purge actions during businesshours to a minimum. It
just happened to coincide with my other need for the deleted mails to be
gone.
As to Mhonarc, it may have to switch to using IMAP to access the mailbox in
the future when the next "problem" arises. As the webmail seems to have done
that as well it may turn out to be the new "window into the mailbox" in the
future.
Groetjes,
Bonno Bloksma
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