Everything was fine with 2006.04a on the same box Bill Foresman Matrosity Hosting www.matrosity.com 850.656.2644
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Traylor Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 2006.1 slow web logon issue > Here are a few questions to anyone experiencing this issue. I know I wasn't complaining, but I'll answer anyway :o) The webmail in the first versions of 2006 were very disappointing in performance, but have improved continually and dramatically to the point where I tend to like it. It is still noticeably slower than the old webmail in 8.22 but I attribute this to the new gui format and the difference in my test and production servers. Yahoo's new webmail is similarly slower than their old style, and Microsoft's new hotmail, Live is also slower than the old Hotmail. None of my client computers are what you would call fast, so I believe it is a combination of the added functionality slowing down on my system as well as on the server. Still acceptable if the programs work as expected, but I would love an additional reduced functionality, lightning fast version for our users on 566 Celerons like the original Imail webmail that we could optionally run concurrently with the new version. FYI I am not experiencing a terrible slowdown issue as far as I can see running 2006.1 on our test server. This server is a Dell desktop tower, 1ghz P-III with 512MB ram and a 40GB IDE 7200 rpm Imail drive, very little activity or usage and just receives email tagged as spam by our production system to simulate email flow. I am the only one that logs onto the webmail there although we have done some testing with multiple users logging on at the same time. All testing was done locally with a 100MB network connection to the servers. Just trying to add more information to the database: > 1) What DB are you using for authentication? Imail database on the test server running 2006.1. Active directory for our production system running 8.22. > 2) Is the slowness every time you log into any given account or just > the first time you log in and subsequent logins to the same account are fine? No noticable difference between 1st or subsequent logins although due to the server's lack of resources, it does seem to take a little longer the first time anyone accesses the webmail after a long period of no webmail logons. Equivilent to how long it takes to run a new application on the desktop of that server as in MS Word or IE. This is not the login process, but just bringing up the login window in Iclient. Takes ~20 seconds or so before the login screen is visable. Subsequent accesses to the login screen are almost instant inhouse. > 3) Is the slowness for only accounts that have a max mailbox size set? It does not appear to make a difference. > 4) If it's slow on just some accounts, what size are they in terms of > # of messages and disk space? The slowest user (the spam box) has 818MB in use with a 1.999GB limit that shows as a 1GB limit on his screen although its bar only goes less than half way across and is still green. It has one mailbox with 12.5k msgs using 163MB and many other mailboxes. It has 30~40k msgs in the other various mailboxes. This user takes ~12 seconds from login to view the messages in it's inbox. This does not change when I remove the limits. On Imail 8.22, it takes about 2 seconds to see the mailbox list with about 130MB of disk space used and ~40k messages in various mailboxes on the production server. Once logged in 2006.1 takes about the same time as 8.22 to display a mailbox with 12k messages. My administrative user has no limits on mailbox size or # and has almost no mail. It takes ~6 seconds to login and see the contents of the inbox. This does not change when I set limits for the user. On Imail 8.22 webmail it takes ~2 seconds to see the mailbox list. Hope this helps some, Doug Traylor To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
