> "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."
> - by default "yes", but the service restart automatically each 15
> sec if it is failed. If you talk about 100 and more messages this is
> not a good practice to collect it all in queue
"Not a good practice" is irrelevant for high-volume mail servers that
develop huge backlogs in just a few minutes. Windows admins are
certainly no strangers to seeing services occasionally stop for
unknown reasons, so the question is not whether the service will ever
fail, but how the system will respond when it isn't running. Whether
or not your service is error-correcting, it is not encapsulated by an
API that reacts to its failure in the least dangerous fashion.
I was disturbed to read your response (in another message) that
"Probably most [people] choose to receive a harmful messages instead
not send and receive anything at all"; I fear that this shows that
you're out of step with the real world of systems administration,
which quite commonly requires that we make decisions that best protect
the integrity of internal systems and external reputations, rather
than responding to non-technical users who have nary a concept of the
dangers posed by viruses.
> - all product do the same job by absolutely different ways, so the
> end user may expect more quality new advantages, (indivisual box
> scanning, compressing etc) ;)
SendName applications have no trouble performing individual mailbox
scanning: a red herring. What you do offer that they currently do
not--compression--is very handy and a commendable goal, but unrelated
to your anti-virus features. And it could be done just as well with a
SendName.
I submit that you should rewrite your application to use the SendName
hook, then (re)present it to the IMail community. It could thus be
judged on its own merits, none of which are inherent in the use of MBX
file scanning.
--Sandy
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