>Normally, writing spool files directly is discouraged (as they are >undocumented and can change between versions of IMail), but it is a risk >some are willing to take.
But it's pretty dumb risk, with no payoff to cover the risk of screwing up the queue and interfering with mail delivery, since the gain in performance is nil, and as Scott says, the reliability across just Imail versions is not guaranteed. Plus the application that wishfully writes to the queue file is not portable. ie, if the application were using the RFC-standard SMTP interface, the application could write, at any time, to any SMTP server anywhere, eg, as a failover tactic. Len www.menandmice.com/8000/8100_course_schedule.html: DNS Training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
