Fair enough
Russ Eisenberg, CCNA, CNA, N+
Director of IT Services
Worldwide Security Network
718.380.0209
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Norton Antivirus
>
> >The only problem with the SMTP solution is the delay
>
> very marginal, a delay between machines, not a delay experienced by users.
>
> > and another point of failure for you system.
>
> unavoidable, but is easily offset by the increase in redundancy, in mail
> routing flexibility, and off loading the heavy (command line) scanning
from
> your user mailbox server.
>
> AV scanning is back-office plumbing, shouldn�t be run on front-office
> user-services boxes.
>
> >...with a solution that actually scans the spool you limit your delay.
>
> with low-volume servers, this is acceptable, but it doesn�t scale. Large
> mail systems are disk-bound. AV scanning is more disk i/o.
>
> in-line scanning on a separate box reduces disk i/o on the mailbox server
> since infected msgs are kept off the mailbox server.
>
> >...and decrease your risk of downtime....
>
> extremely marginal
>
> Len
>
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