On-access/Real time scanners running a mail server are not a good idea in general, especially McAfee, which is a dog in general wrt speed.
Compounding the issue is some versions of McAfee will on-access scan the mbx files. At minimum mbx should be excluded from on-access scanning. Personally I don't think ANY on-access scanning belongs on a server that doesn't have user shares, and even then, only if there is no control over the desktop. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reita Gilleland / Internet America" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:39 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Slow Web Messaging Possible Fix > To all forum members running Declude Virus with Netshield McAffee Server > Version: > > Around the first of the year, we moved Imail to a new server. Close to the > same time we purchased Declude Virus protection and installed a server copy > of Netshield to scan the emails. > > Our web messaging slowed by to a crawl. Even when we brought up the Imail > Administrator on the server itself and told it to show all domains on the > server, we could go for a cup of coffee before it finished listing the > domains and we are talking about around 175 domains. > > Yesterday we pulled in a consultant to be sure we had all Windows Updates on > our Windows 2000 machine and all security patches. He was installing > Service Pack 3 on the mailserver when our web messaging suddenly became > lightning fast. Once the Service Pack was installed and the machine was > rebooted, everything was slow again. We worked to be sure no services were > running on the machine that were unnecessary and found a service running for > Netshield McShield, one for Netshield Task Manager, and one for Alert > Manager. We stopped the Netshield McShield service and everything sped up > again. Since Declude is using a command line to scan incoming/outgoing > emails that part still works. I emailed Declude and he said as long as the > server was running only mail services that that should be ok to stop the > McShield service. > > Anyway, EVERYTHING is so much faster... Web messaging is blazing. And we > hope this will also help with some other small problems we are having with > Imail and SMTP TCP timeouts. > > Just thought someone out there may be experiencing the same problems and > could use this info. > > Internet America > Statesville, NC > > --- > [Pre-scanned for viruses as a service provided by Internet America. Be sure you have your own virus protection software to catch viruses that get by this pre-scan.] > > > 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/ 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/
