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Title: Double scanning...?
Post by: saoir on March 09, 2004, 08:39:11 PM

Avasti + Pocomail + K9:  Win2k.

I have Avast scanning email and displaying it's progress in the real time popup window that it uses.

I am curious because when I watch the emails being scanned i often see emails appear twice in a row 9though not ALWAYS so)... and though it appears that have been duplicated in my in box, I find that this is not the case... that there is only one.

Why would they be listed twice ?

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: RejZoR on March 09, 2004, 08:51:52 PM

You'll se mail icon once in a while that checks for virus-spam (heuristic i guess) and another one when mail really comes into your INBOX.

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: faffy on March 09, 2004, 11:08:46 PM

I have exactly tha same thing happenning with TheBat clietn since I use its own Bayesit spam filter. I used K9 mbefore and I have not noticed. doubling
The strange thing is that not all e-mails are doubled. Does anyone hav an explanation?

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: saoir on March 23, 2004, 10:11:20 AM

Looks like no one knows.... I am concerned that using Pocomail with K9 might be triggering a double scan.... at both stages of email collection... by both application.   is this possible ?

it is in the detailed listing that the duplication occurs.

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: RejZoR on March 23, 2004, 12:02:33 PM

How is K9 working (i forgot)? Like local proxy?

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: saoir on March 24, 2004, 02:15:43 PM

Quote from: RejZoR on March 23, 2004, 12:02:33 PM

How is K9 working (i forgot)? Like local proxy?

yes - listening on port 9999.

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: Lisandro on March 24, 2004, 09:03:31 PM

Sorry for the silly question, but what is K9?  ;)

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: RejZoR on March 24, 2004, 09:24:50 PM

Its an anti-spam tool :)

Title: Re:Double scanning...?
Post by: Lisandro on March 24, 2004, 09:30:27 PM

Quote from: RejZoR on March 24, 2004, 09:24:50 PM

Its an anti-spam tool :)

Thanks. Can you compare it with Spamihilator or SpamPal?  ;)