Hi, we are running 1.1.2.122 and I have a question regarding quarantine pruning. Aside from the time of receipt does SpamFilter add any other time stamps to a quarantined file that it would use for pruning? I ask because I changed our pruning interval from 3 days down to 2 however even when the time came for pruning to start (we had manually reviewed and deleted the quarantine for the first 3 days to tune the app) nothing is happening.

We estimate we have 220,000 items in our quarantine and all else works like a charm. As you can see auto pruning is needed in our situation. I have started and stopped the service, refreshed the quarantine a couple times (about a 15 minutes refresh time) still without success.

Any ideas what may be going on?

Hi Roberto, what about those of us who are not going to be able to move to the database quarantine immediately? Will there still be the option for a file based quarantine and will its workings be more optimized?

What are the limits for using access as your database? We experience about 50,000 quarantines per day, making for a rather large database in a short period of time. I ask because an access database can exist on the same machine as spamfilter and shouldn't require an extra license like SQL or Oracle would.

Also, what happens if your email gateway exists in a DMZ without access to any database servers, or if you have a database server in your DMZ what happens if you cannot access the spamfilter machine from inside with a web browser (web server on spamfilter box) or the web server can't query the database in the DMZ? I'm assuming the web interface needs apache or IIS to run the pages.

At my company we are running two gateways load balanced.  With the new DB version of your software in this situation how will clients looking at their quarantined e-mail be handled?  Will we need to merge two DBs or can the DB be fed by two sources.  I am not very sharp with DB management\administration.

Good point! We developed with fliexibility and functionality in mind. Right now with the filesystem-based quarantine you have two separate servers and two sets of quarantined items. The DB version is multi-server ready. Multiple SpamFilter servers should all point to the same database server (and same database of course). The quarantines from the separate servers are merged into one table (actually two, one for the to, from, subject etc, the other only for the msg body). Both the web interface the the SpamFilter GUIs will show the combined data in the quarantine, and both web and either SpamFIlter server can be used to process/expire/deliver any email, without caring which server actually quarantined it.

We may be releasing a beta version for testing within a few days, if request is high for it.

Roberto Franceschetti
LogSat Software

Hi Roberto,

I would like to Beta test on my SQL 2000 server to see how well it performs. I know my ISP clients would love to try the web interface. This would allow them to decide if they want a blocked email with out me having to spend hours daily checking the logs. I currently have turned qurantining off since I just don't have the free hours to review all the blocked emails so having them in quarantine is a waste of disk space.