Hi Bob, I said it from a personal perspective, but I think it has valid technical reasons too! WebMail is useful but put a lot of pressure on the resources of the server. Just think of all the extra disk accesses, memory usage, cpu usage, etc. If you're running a low volume server then this will probably not be too much of a problem. However, what happens when you get thousands of users on a single box using POP3, SMTP, IMAP4 and Webmail all together !?!?
If they could run on separate machines you could overcome certain 'physical' limitations such as data transfer across buses, access times on disks, etc As you mentioned you will also benefit from greater stability. While SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 seems to run flawlessly for months the WebMail services seem not to be as reliable. WebMail is 'nice to have', but smtp, pop3, imap4 are critical. If the WebMail goes down I don't want it to pull down the whole box. Thats my $0.02 worth, use it at your own risk! Regards, Nathan. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Ferguson Sent: 13 December 2001 18:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Question on Web mail (was: Thinking about dumpin gI-mail) Would running Web mail on a separate machine make that much of a speed difference or is the statement more from a personal preference/stability/whatever point of view? I do see that 7.x is MUCH slower on the Web than 6.x was, but I'm not sure if that is a function of the Web mail, the mail backup, both or something else. If putting the Web mail service on another box would speed up the mail system, that would be great. Thanks. Bob Ferguson Sound Data, Inc. -----Original Message----- ... I personally dislike that Imail WebMail has to be run on the same box as the mail server. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
