Scott, I definitely misunderstood your point. Thanks for clarifying. Your scenario seems like a remote possibility, but one that I will definitely take into account. I regularly go through the spam traps on my secondary and have gone so many months without anything even close to credible being stopped (even the bulk mailers that purposefully target the secondary are either whitelisted or do not rate high enough a score to warrant deletion) that I do tend to think in black and white terms at times.
Admittedly, my user base is small enough that "remote possibilities" don't tend to happen in my version of the real world very often. I'm sure that if I handled tens or hundreds of thousands of messages each day that I would be more likely to see these types of oddities occur. I'll experiment with the SpamCannibal project on my back up servers and see what kind of results that I get. If nothing else, it should at least be a source of personal amusement. :-) William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. > Scott Perry > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SpamCannibal (was another topic) > > > > > > If that temporary problem lasts a few extra seconds, the > attempt to > > > the > > 2nd > > > mailserver can fail too, causing the remote mailserver to hit the > > > 3rd > > mailserver. > > >If I had two different servers at two different locations > (and feeds) > >both tank simultaneously, I'd probably have more problems to worry > >about than spam. :-) > > I think you misunderstood. > > I wasn't saying that there was a problem with *your* > mailservers. I'm > saying that if I send you an E-mail, the same problem that > could cause me > to go to your 2nd mailserver (a temporary connection problem > on my end > preventing me from reaching your 1st mailserver) could easily cause a > problem reaching the 2nd mailserver (but successfully > reaching the third). > > Let's say my Internet connection is out for a minute. My > mailserver tries > your primary, and times out after 30 seconds. It then tries > the secondary, > and times out after 30 more seconds. It then tries your 3rd > mailserver, > which it is now able to successfully connect to. > > >Seriously, my backup servers (everything but the primary) > are located > >in my house, so I keep a pretty close eye on them. If the > second server > >ever went down, I would likely be 10 feet away and could closely > >monitor any traffic hitting the third server. > > The issue isn't an issue on *your* end. The issue is an issue on the > remote end. > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail > mailservers > since 2000. > Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader > in mailserver > vulnerability detection. > Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. > > > ---- > This outgoing message is guaranteed to be authentic by > Message Level users. Guarantee the authenticity of your email > @ http://www.messagelevel.com. > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > > 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/ > 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/
