At 11:03 AM 2/9/2001 -0500, Charles Huckleberry wrote:
>I have a similar situation/problem.
>
>Dual P-III Flip Chip, 512M, RAID, ServerSet (Supermicro) M/B
>Imail 6.05
>W2K Server
>SQL 2000 Enterprise
>
>I _was_ needing to restart IWebmsg & SMTP quite often. (At least every 4
>hours.)
>
>Steve at IMail support suggested I do a re-install (since I had upgraded
>from 6.04 (CD) to 6.05 w/patches.
>
>After doing that (then re-applying SP1 - I know... I shouldn't need to. I
>did it and it solved the problem.) It all works well.
Did you loosing any messages or have to re-setup Imail? I have 4K users
live and I can not afford to loose messages or have to redo things. I know
the user auth is in the sql server. But my Virtual - that would be a
nightmare.
Thanks in advance for the insight.
>My server shows 'unreachable' on ICMP ping every now and again, but that's
>an Ethernet thing...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
>Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 2:50 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail Performance
>
>
>
> >I setup a test Imail server using Quad 450, 512MB RAM, SQL, 4K users
>
>that's a lot of box for just 4K users.
>
> > - I have noticed that I will have to stop/start the pop and webmsg
> > every so often...
>
>no news there. iwebmsg has difficulties on some boxes.
>
>pop service, however, ime, is very reliable, as is SMTP.
>
>So it sounds like something isn't quite right on your box, but I
>haven't a clue how to determine what.
>
> >It varies actually ( 1hour, 2hour - have not gone a day w/o
> >restarting the services) The performance monitor shows CPU is less
> >than 33% at any time
>
>I bet your avg through working hours is under 10% CPU load. Heavy
>iwebmsg'ing will up that a lot.
>
> >The only thing is that we have 4 people set as system admin and they
> >may be changing accounts.... Is there a limit on the webmesg access?
>
>4 iwebmsg sessions is not many compared to the 500 or so I think
>Imail can support out of the box.
>
> >BTW, I have a separate box running sendmail handling all outgoing
> >messages, but if people are using webmesg, the imail server directly sends
>it.
>
>I don't follow you. Imail either delivers all mail to the remote
>server addressed in the message headers or it can be set to send all
>its outgoing through a gateway. It doesn't matter if the outgoing
>mail originates in SMTP or iwebmsg. I recommend having Imail send
>through through your sendmail gateway. Sendmail then would relay
>Imail's outgoing.
>
> >Should I have the Imail server send all to our sendmail box?
>
>yes, that's what we do with IMGate.
>
> >I have all message coming directly to the imail server.
>
>You could use the sendmail box as the MX for Imail, and relay the
>incoming to Imail. In IMGate, we have postfix do this after doing all
>kinds of mail abuse defenses.
>
>Len
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