Re: [IMail Forum] Using MSDE w/ Imail

[Darin Cox]

Title: Using MSDE w/ Imail

Yep.  While I prefer the functionality and management tools of SQL Server, MySQL is a very good product.  However, while very inexpensive, MySQL is not free for business use.   One note about SQL 2005 Express:  it's not for production, as it only runs on the local desktop.  So it's fine for a desktop application with a local database, but not for an application or web server.  Think of it as a replacement for MSDE. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Shaun Mickey To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:44 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Using MSDE w/ Imail I really don’t see how they can’t, if your not too big of a shop then SQL server is massive overkill.  The open source MySQL and PosgreSQL are damn good for free, they’re not too hard to configure and they both (I know MySQL does) run on windows as well as Linux or UNIX.   Microsoft has to do something to keep in the game   Thanks, Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Mickey  270net Technologies Phone: 301.663.6000 x28 Fax: 301.663.4410 www.270net.com "Internet/Technology Solutions for Business and Government" ----------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matrosity Hosting Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:38 PM To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Using MSDE w/ Imail   I'm amazed that MS is giving this away! Kevin Bilbee wrote: 2005 Express does not have a connection limit. It does have processor, database, and memory usage size limits.   Look here for a comparison of features/limits with the different version od SQL 2005 http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx     Kevin Bilbee       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Troy D. Hilton Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:05 AM To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: [IMail Forum] Using MSDE w/ Imail Hello All, We’re running Imail 7.15 here and need to build a new SQL Server to handle user authentication. Currently we’re running SQL 2000 Server but the boss wants me to move to SQL Express 2005. I’m concerned that I’ll hit walls with concurrent connection limits. The old 2000 MSDE had a limit of 25 concurrent connections. I’m not positive if this is still true with SQL Express 2005 but being that I have a good 60+ virtual hosts on this server, not to mention about 10 websites that also use this SQL Server, I’m going to run into connection limits hard. Can anyone provide some insight here? Is it feasible to run Imail with a SQL Express database? Troy D. Hilton Serveon, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 302-529-8640