Frank,
Sorry you are having problems, It really sucks to pick up where some one
else left off. (If only I had a dollar....)
Well anyway here is my two cents....
I have always found that with NT, some things just can't be explained...
(after spending hours, days, seems like years, searching Microsoft's website
for a problem I have run into.) So what I have done in the past is blow it
away and start from scratch... Setup a temp secondary Mail server (if you
don't have one) and reinstall NT and Imail from scratch.
I know this will be a major pain in the ass, but it's better than
wasting time and pulling your hair out trying to guess / figure out what the
problem is. Especially since you inherited this problem from the previous
Sys Admin. I recently fired mine and reinstalled all the servers just to be
on the safe side. We have 12 NT, 5 BSD and 1 Red Hat Linux servers
running.... It sucked... but I re-installed all of them and know exactly
everything that has been done to them and what patches have been installed,
etc.
Our IMail servers are running like a champ... the only problem I had way
back was I forgot change the hosts file after doing a class C change. Never
had to call tech support... ever.
BTW I would only run SP5. I have had too many weird things happen with
SP6. Plus our other servers run Cold Fusion and Oracle and Cold Fusion just
doesn't like SP6.
Good luck and have fun :)
Bob
Robert R. Brown
VP Operations
PK Communications, Inc.
3173 Chili Avenue
Suite 200
Rochester, New York 14624
http://www.pkcommunications.com
1-716-889-7130 ext. 30
1-716-889-7413 Fax
1-716-737-7132 Cellular
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 7:08 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Continuation
> Done did that too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Barnhill
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 3:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Continuation
>
>
> Frank,
>
> I was having quite a few strange problems some time back. That last
> thing I did after upgrading to 6.03 was to give the System Account Full
> Control permissions on the entire contents of both the C: drive and D:
> (spool) drive of my server (Dual PIII-450). I'm not sure if I like
> that, but it worked for me.
>
> Ever since, things have run fairly smooth (except that darn hair color
> thing annoys me...anyone know how to turn that off?).
>
> I'm afraid I don't have any info on your original question about the
> intermittent slow internal delivery times. I've had the same issue but
> never found a reason - nor can I reproduce it.
>
> Craig Barnhill
> Hockinson School District No. 98
>
>
>
> > Hell....I'm still trying to figure out why so much of my CPU time is
being
> > eaten by the smtp32.exe processes. I've even forced it down to 10
> > occurrences max and it still does it. It's almost like iMail expands to
> > fill all available CPU no matter what you put it on. I got about the
same
> > performance out of a P133 system that had 64MB of RAM as I am getting
out
> > of the P2-266 box with 256MB of RAM.
> >
> > It sounds like there are some SERIOUS issues with multi-processor
machines
> > or moving to larger boxes or something. Even Exchange gets better the
> > bigger box you put it on. Where as iMail seems to perform the same, and
> > just waste more clock cycles or something.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sheldon Koehler
> > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 2:47 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Continuation
> >
> > Hi Frank. We have been running Imail for almost 4 years now. It is a
great
> > product as far as I am concerned.
> >
> > I agree with you on the pay per incident support issue. But the annual
> > service contract is not that much higher than some PPI's I have done. It
> > is
> > worth it even for just getting the upgrades.
> >
> > This list is a great source for help on a lot of the common issues.
Phone
> > support has been both great and awful. When it was awful, I complained
and
> > got someone else. It was then great again ;)
> >
> > I just wish Ipswitch offered an optional 24x7 support contract! We ISP's
> > never sleep... as it seems our customers never do...
> >
> > Sheldon
> >
> > _____________________________
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> > Ten Forward Communications
> > http://www.tenforward.com
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