Whoa!  First post in like 4.5 months Scott.  Did you have a good vacation?
Are you back to working on Declude?
If so, when do you think there's going to be a new release that will fix the
overflow issue related to:
[Application popup: Declude.exe - Application Error : The application failed
to initialize properly (0xc0000142). Click on OK to terminate the
application]

In June, I was told there would be a fix in two weeks, but that was six
weeks ago.

--Mike 

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Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude Woes

>  I see about 250,000 messages per day and I have 3000 accounts.

 > 3.05ghz xeon with 1gb of RAM


I thought it would be worth making a few comments here.  The two most likely
culprits are either CPU usage or processing time per message.

Typically, when using anti-virus, it is recommended to have at least 1GHz of
CPU power for every 100,000 E-mails/day that a server handles.  
So in this case, you have just a bit more than the minimum recommended
amount of CPU.  The first thing to do is check your CPU usage when you have
Declude running; if it is at 100%, you've found the main issue.  If that is
the case, following the suggestion of switching to F-Prot would be a good
option, and checking to see if you are using CPU-intensive Declude JunkMail
filters would be a good idea.

The second is that at 250,000 E-mails/day, you are close (in the same order
of magnitude, at least) to the maximum amount of E-mail that an IMail server
can comfortably handle.  At that volume, each E-mail normally has about 10
seconds to be scanned and delivered.  Exceed that, and E-mail will get
backed up until the rate goes back under that ~10 second threshold.  If you
never go below that threshold, you will never be able to deliver all your
E-mail (it's kind of like eating more calories than you burn every day --
you'll keep gaining weight forever until you burn more calories or eat less
calories).

If the issue is processing time, one option is to either add another IMail
server to help balance the load, or have one or more gateways (IMail,
IMGate, or something else) process the E-mail first.  Another option is to
reduce the amount of time spent processing each E-mail -- unless there is a
configuration issue, Declude Virus should take <1 second to scan each
E-mail, so tuning the Declude JunkMail settings would be good here (weeding
out any spam databases or other lookups that are no longer responding, or
slow to respond).
                                         -Scott
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