I'm not sure about IPMail, but I've had experience with MS-Exchange and
attempting to process a number of large e-mails...
Initially things were okay, the server ran slowly and the drive grinded a
lot, but mail was moving. The real problem began when the amount of e-mail
escalated - the system slowed to a crawl (whether sending e-mail or letting
me get in to access the terminal directly), and eventually began having
"strange and unusual" behavior resulting in a crash after roughly a week of
use. Nasty business getting it up and running again.
The entire experience was one I recommend avoiding. It may be possible that
using a defragmenter nightly and keeping the data on a completely separate
partition could help if you decide to go down that path.
Tom.
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From: Peter Hedgeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 11:05 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Large email attachments - pros & cons
> Can I get some feedback / thoughts on large email attachments? Besides the
> fact that the user usually gets impatient and thinks the mail system is
> broke while a 10MB file is being attached and sent, do they eat up mail
> server CPU cycles; are they Ram intensive? I have a small number of email
> users, the majority on a decent sized connection not dialup, and some need
> to send large attachments. I understand that email is not the best way to
> transport large files, but I don't want to get into creating ftp sites and
> educating a user on how to do it. They'll just complain that they already
> have email, why can't they use it. I already limit their individual
> mailboxes to 10Mbs and set their client to download locally. I intend to
> test with Perf Mon this week to see network reactions.....
>
> Of course, if I do give them FTP, I get to charge for it.....
>
> Peter Hedgeman
> Online Systems Integration
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