Hello List,
Our Imail is running on a Dual Proc, 512MB RAM, SCSI Drives. This machine is just
running Imail.
There are only several hundred accounts (Long story, but there used to be 5000+
accounts, that's why
it's on such a fast machine).
We have a mailing list with about 34,000 addresses in the list. We sent our first
message to this
list and it didn't go very well. The system resouces never went higher than 5%. There
were up to 130
SMTP processes for the messages at any point. The installation was done by someone
else, I think it
was installed with defaults. What settings in Imail or in the Registry can i change to
hopefully
improve things?
During the time the messages were being delivered incoming mail wasn't being delivered
to accounts
in Imail. Or so far down in the queue that it seemed like it stopped. Would we have a
chance of
losing any incoming or outgoing mail during this mail blast?
After 5 or so hours there were about 7200 messages still in the Q and it seemed to
have stopped. I
started pulling anything in the Q ending in .LST then it started again. when i copied
the messages
back into te Q it ddidn't seem to know they were in there. I even copied some regular
messages back
in there that were copied out and it didn't notice those either. At this point any
mail outgoing or
incoming seem to work just fine. The number of the messages in the Q was "0" even
though there was
messages in the spool folder. Any insight would be appreciated.
How many members can a list on a machine like this handle?
Thanks for the help,
-steve funk
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