In my case I am running both McAfee SMTP and Imail on one server, and it
seems to work very well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Yuri Levenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: Re[6]: [IMail Forum] virus
> Reply to: Yuri Levenfeld
> Re: [IMail Forum] virus on Monday 9:14:23 PM
> From: Roger Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Y> Oh well, if it is so, then I take my words back. Declude sounds like a
good
> Y> solution to me, with two exceptions:
>
> Y> 1. It requires McAfee desktop version of antivirus. This is different
from
> Y> SMTP. While I have never seen SMTP version of McAfee crash, I observed
may
> Y> times how McAfee desktop version would bring the system to a halt. One
time
> Y> it is corrupted service, next time Mcafee programmers issued a buggy
DAT....
> Y> I really don't want to see my server crash, for my job will crash with
it.
>
> Not so. You cannot install and run the desktop version of VirusScan on an
NT
> Server. You must use the NT Server version. (all of $60) Well, as far
> as a corrupt DAT file, I have yet to see one and I've been using McAfee
> since my early BBS days, almost 20 years. I would suspect that their
> email gateway would crash the same if any service or DAT was
> corrupted. I think the probability of this is almost zero.
>
> Y> 2. While Imail-McAfee is just 2 unit chain, Declude adds one more, so
now
> Y> you have three possible points of failure instead of two.
>
> Y> All the rest sounds good. If I knew this before buying McAfee
Webshield, I'd
> Y> seriously consider such option with Declude.
>
> I am sure WebShield is a very good product, but again you are wrong.
> The only thing worse than one server is two unless you are running
> many SMTP servers. Scott's message explains all this (I see he just
> posted). Declude is composed of one executable and a couple of config
> files. I would bet on one solid executable running threads more than
> on multiple servers.
>
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