Bill, Every situation is different. I use HOPHIGH 4 and I'm very satisfied. My reasons are:
1. I have a client who has mail processing issues and I end up relaying a lot of their inbound and outbound mail. Since they get about 500 pieces of spam a day I want to get maximum protection and eliminate the handling of the bounces, which I end up with when their server rejects them. On the outbound side I get everything after their server gets it's three tries which means I handle most of their garbage. I also dump all my outbound retries to another mail server after three attempts to keep that load off of the Imail server and to provide deferred messages to the user which IMail doesn't do (one of my gripes with IMail). 2. I also have 2 mail servers which can relay to my IMail server. I've discovered over time that many e-mail systems do not send to the highest priority MX but seem to randomly select an MX record so a portion of my mail comes through the relays even when everything's working just fine. These situations could be handled by IPBYPASS but things then get further complicated by mail being forwarded from other e-mail accounts such as att.net. These come from a variety of mail servers and I don't want to have to continually check all of the valid IP's of all of the forwarders and try to keep that list up to date. One consideration to keep in mind is that you want to use a robust DNS server for IMail in this situation since you're going to pound the s--- out of it. I use a DNS that's dedicated to IMail requests. I also force responses from confirmed authoritative DNS's to avoid spoofing, which means more of a load on my DNS. George Kulman Partner Ridge Systems, L.L.C. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill B Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] HOPHIGH How affective is scanning at multiple Hops? I'm not setting HOPHIGH right now...but I'm currious if the people who are using it are seeing its benefits, or if it is causing them any problems. And what is the recommended HOPHIGH setting (assuming HOP is set to "0")? Bill --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.