If you need to handle that many users you might want to look at a product like surgemail, which can be clustered. http://www.netwinsite.com/index.html
On 4/2/07, Omar K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Bonno and Rod for your helpful replies. > > You guys are right, it looks like I wont be giving up my imgate machine > anytime soon. I contacted SmarterMail and it turns out it's a not scalable > solution, they say that their box can accommodate around 40k users. I still > love their GUI interface and the stats they provide, so I will use them and > imgate, but looks like declude will be out. SM provides a lot of built-in > spam measures. > > I asked them a few question and thought I would share it with the rest: > > > 1 - The limitation of 40k, is it for active user sessions? or just a number > of > emails accounts possible per server? > - The limit of 40,000 users is a practical one for total users based on > typical activity on a mail server in a hosting environment. 40,000 > concurrent users is not possible on a single Windows-based machine because > of socket limitations. > > 2 - Is smartermail clustarable? > - SmarterMail is not currently clusterable > > 3 - Where are the user accounts stored? > - User accounts and all configuration data is stored in the file system in a > combination of XML and proprietary files. > > 4 - Can SM utilize SQL ? > - SmarterMail cannot currently tie into database systems > > 5 - Can SM work/utilize windows x64 platform ? > - SmarterMail can run under 64 bit > > 6 - Is it possible to have the web mail on a separate machine than where the > SM engine runs ? > - The web mail currently has to be on the same machine as the other > protocols. This actually leads to the best performance in our experience. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Bonno Bloksma > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:58 AM > To: IMGate@mgw2.MEIway.com > Subject: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail > > Hi, > If you have it now, how much time and effort do you need to invest to keep > in going? As far as I know IMGate is pretty much a "fire and forget" setup > for the basic function. As you mailserver will definitely like having IMGate > as an inbound filter and maybe even as an outbound mailer I would simply > leave it in place. > > If you don't intend to keep it in the future just set up a protocol for > removing it when you are ready to do so. That way if the server does fail at > an inconvenient moment you'll have all the steps to take in front of you and > it should take just minutes to get things going. > > > Met vriendelijke groet, > Bonno Bloksma > hoofd systeembeheer > > > > tio hogeschool hotelmanagement en toerisme > begijnenhof 8-12 / 5611 el eindhoven > t 040 296 28 28 / f 040 237 35 20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.tio.nl > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Omar K. > To: IMGate@mgw2.MEIway.com > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:39 AM > Subject: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail > > > Thanks everyone for the helpful replies. > > I am actually debating whether I still need my imgate or not. Still > testing > and have not migrated my heavy domains yet. Will keep list posted on my > findings regarding load and spam. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: roger weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fwd: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail > > We switched to SmarterMail several years ago and with the latest > release have actually eliminated our external IMGate filtering server > as we had to deal with too many (> 1000) domains coming from several > disjoint (FreeBSD, Linux, windows, external customer's) mail servers > (not just 1 SmarterMail). The new greylisting feature in SmarterMail > really cut down on spam making this possible. I still have it in place > for use as a filtering server for a select few domains and as a backup > MX server. > > If you decide you still need your IMGate server you just need to > switch to a new program to export your users to IMGate. This is > available for free on the Smartertools site. > Here is a link to the instructions: > http://www.smartertools.com/downloads/smartermail/smailusr-readme.pdf > and here is the download: > ftp://ftp.balloons.com/pub/smailusr.zip > > If you want to save some money on Smarter Mail we offer it at 10% off > of list price. > > Roger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mar 28, 2007 11:26 AM > Subject: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail > To: IMGate@mgw2.meiway.com > > > > >I have finally decided to move to the latest version of SmarterMail from > >imail v6. What are some of the things I need to look at or take into > >account when doing the switch in regards to imgate setup ? > > nothing, except the Windows script for exporting Smartermail users to > Imgate. > > Len > > > > > > > > -- > Do you like it hot? http://www.spicymama.com > Hot Pepper/BBQ/Wing sauce for those who like it hot. > > > > > > > > > -- Do you like it hot? http://www.spicymama.com Hot Pepper/BBQ/Wing sauce for those who like it hot.
