At 9:17 AM -0500 2/6/03, Daniel Senie wrote:
Norton AV, and other email filtering and handling products which
interpose themselves in as proxy servers in this way are really
useless products. They fail to implement lots of features of POP
(e.g. TLS) and create serious support headaches. Products which
wish to filter spam or viruses REALLY should be built to "plug in"
to mail clients via APIs. Other vendors get this right.
In addition to APIs, some clients are careful to write each message
as a temp file before deleting it from the server. This has the
added benefit of allowing local anti-virus software on the client to
scan the file.
While I use Norton for virus scanning myself, I keep the email
scanning disabled (I provide Antivirus in my mail server anyway,
and have other protections on my client, so I'm covered). This
poorly designed component really hurts an otherwise decent product
offering.
These sorts of products also cause problems with clients that use CAPA.
--
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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