On 19/03/2004 at 11:53:54, Dave Riddle wrote: > Anyone tried this product? > http://www.imailzip.com
Haven't tried it, but judging from the "how it works" description it actually locks the .mbx file (IMail locking), opens it, processes it, writes a replacement back to disk and then unlocks it. Every time you receive a message. And if you've got 100 messages in there when the 101st arrives, it'll process all 101 messages even though it's already seen the first 100. And if the ImailZip service stops for some reason, infected mail will be silently delivered intact instead of being held in the queue until the problem is fixed. I'm sure there's a reason for doing it that way instead of just analysing incoming messages through the normal hook (like Declude and mxGuard). There has to be - nobody would even dream of such inefficient and failure-prone processing without a good reason. And if someone works out what that reason is, please enlighten me. :) Cheers, Evan To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
