James 2.0a3, ZoneAlarm Pro

[Marc Chamberlin <ma...@easystreet.com>]

Hello -

I just upgraded my James server to version 2.0a3 from version 2.0a2 and 
am encountering a new problem. I am running the James server on a Win98 
box and am using the ZoneAlarm Pro firewall from ZoneLabs. If I bring up 
the James server after the ZoneAlarm firewall is running, I notice an 
unending amount of activity occurring that is being detected by the 
firewall. If I momentary shut down the firewall, then bring it back up, 
this activity stops and everything behaves normally, i.e.  the ZoneAlarm 
firewall is not registering any alerts of unusual behavior other than 
this continuous activity. I looked through the log files for James, an 
saw nothing unusual, and it appears to be working OK, a bit slower, 
despite this ongoing activity.

I also use the MySQL data base for my email repository. In the past I 
also used the MySQL database with other servlets and noticed a similar 
behavior in the firewall, when my servlet was making a lot of individual 
requests to the database, so I got around this by batching all my 
database requests and sending them across at once from my servlet. I 
wonder if James might be doing something similar, i.e. sending a LOT of 
database requests to MySQL?

I wonder if anyone else is using this ZoneAlarm Pro firewall product 
with James. If so, have you had any troubles with it? What other 
firewall products, not too expensive, would anyone care to recommend 
that I could use with the James server (and Tomcat, and MySQL), if I 
cannot use the ZoneLabs product?

Thanks for any help offered!  Marc Chamberlin

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