If your virus scanner dies on you Declude WILL NOT shut down your mail system. It just says "hey, mcafee is down, oh well, I'll just send the message back to SMTP"
Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:43 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IMail Anti-Virus Application Causes Front-End IMail Server to Stop Processing Mail w/out Warning! > Thanks for the reply. Are you suggesting that Declude Anti-Virus by > itself without the IMail Anti-Virus app is a much better solution. Do > you have any evidence that this is true? Have others experienced this > problem and switched over to Declude? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Roger Heath > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:40 AM > To: Max Carter > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Anti-Virus Application Causes Front-End > IMail Server to Stop Processing Mail w/out Warning! > > Reply to: Max Carter > Re: [IMail Forum] IMail Anti-Virus Application Causes Front-End > IMail Server to Stop Processing Mail w/out Warning! on Thursday 8:32:25 > AM > > www.declude.com > > -- > Roger Heath > > > ----- Copy of Original Message(s): ----- > > M> Hello! We recently installed the IMail Anti-Virus application on a > M> front-end W2K server (both servers are W2K with quad processors, tons > of > M> memory, etc). This server scans our existing IMail Server v.706. > We've > M> experienced numerous incidents where the anti-virus server processes > M> (carrier scan and watchdog) stop without warning and then cause the > M> separate IMail Server v7.06 to stop processing messages. > > M> In addition, the latest incident caused all of the email sent during > the > M> scanning outage timeframe to be dropped. I manually stopped the > M> scanning after being notified by our customers that their email > services > M> weren't working. We've setup alerts using Whats Up Gold - we > receive > M> no error messages. Also, both the carrier scan and carrier scan > M> watchdog service are up and running every time - there is no evidence > at > M> all that there may be a problem. IPSwitch support had us add an > M> additional registry key to increase the number of processes that the > M> IMail server will spawn before our latest issue occurred. > > M> Has anyone else experienced this issue? We've exhausted our means > and > M> resources on resolving this issue with no success. I'd appreciate > any > M> advice that you may have to offer...and thanks! > > -- > ActivatorMail(tm) ver.041402 Scanned for all viruses by > www.activatormail.com intelligent anti-virus anti-spam service > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
