> Your justifiably beloved small-scale content-scanners like Declude and > Sniffer would melt down in a minute trying to content-scan 100's of > GB/day. Content-scanning is just not an option at the scale, so you would > fall back on the much more efficient envelope-rejection and IP blocking.
Len, that comment made no sense because all of that e-mail going to AOL is not being processed by one single server. It is being processed by multiple servers, probably in a BE/FE setup. If some one using Imail/Declude/... was handling that much traffic, they would be doing it with multiple servers and/or multiple FE like Imgate. Example, I am handling about 2750 messages per day total. (Yes, I am small potatoes compared to the rest of you.) My Imail server running Declude and add-ons is fine. If I was handling say 10,000 per day, I would probably set up an Imgate machine in front. If I had say 25,000 per day, I would probably add a second Imgate machine in front. John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.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/
