> How can you guarantee that the service will be restarted? By another > process which is also subject to failure?
These are to separate independend services. The imailzip inspector utility is simple as abc > > What if your service dies almost immediately once it's loaded? It might > be getting restarted every 15 seconds, but if it's only lasting 5 > seconds that's still 66% of the time the server is unprotected. I do not quite understand your "what if" example. The only purpose of the imailzip inspector utility is to insure that the main anti-virus process is running. As all we know that no progams are perfect and the main task is to decrease the probablity of possible failtures to 0. > > > If you talk about 100 and more messages this is not a good practice to collect it > > all in queue > > Last week I managed to break our Declude installation (by dropping an > incomplete download of declude.exe in the IMail directory). The queue > backed up over 300 messages in the hour before my users complained about > not receiving email and I fixed it, at which point those messages were > steadily processed and delivered. > There are some ways to backed up messages to queue. Probably this is not an anti-virus software task, just a mail administrator's. > If I'd broken ImailZip in the same way, the failure would have been > effectively silent, and I wouldn't have noticed until the desktop virus > scanners started going off. The easiest way to monitor the service is to send a test message, receive it and view X-ImailZip-Sender header. I am not sure that blocking mail traffic is good for end users. Probably most of them choose to receive a harmful messages instead not send and receive anything at all. > Except the Declude/mxGuard way guarantees that all mail will be > processed, because IMail calls the add-in before making the message > unlocks the .mbx file it's available to whichever other process grabs it > first. Most of the time that'll be ImailZip, but it can't be guaranteed. > Yes, you right but the probability is too low and sutable enought to make it works, of course if not 99% of your traffic are harmful ;) 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/
