Thanks, Len. I looked at NOCC and YANOCC. Both looked good, but -- as you point out -- my customers are already spoiled with the HKSI KWM templates. Pushing them to NOCC/YANOCC would not be simple. So it looks like I'm in for a massive Imail server upgrade -- fun!
Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 2:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Question on Web mail (was: Thinking aboutdumpin 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? The first question is how much webmail consumes, and why. For every webmail user, Imail has to open a iwebmail session, which takes x mb of memory, it lasts ususally many minutes, somes 10�s of minutes, vs a few seconds for popo and smtp sessions. multiply by 10's or 100's of simultaneously connected webmail users. webmail also encourages users to keep their mail on the server, meaning bigger to huge-ish mailboxes (ie, .mbx files), takes longer to scan, repeatedly, to build the list of msgs in iwebmail. much more pressure on the mailbox disk. imap is worse that pop3, but imap is better for webmail server than pop3. > 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. I have asked for this "satellite webmail server(s)" working into one mailbox server, but Imail 7 is still only strictly a one-box solution. Easing the pressure on an IMail box is achieved by offloading receiving/sending/anti-abuse plumbing to IMGate (which you have already done), and not loading up a busy Imail server with AV scanning (declude works best when the Imail server has a lot of power to burn). You could try a free webmail server like NOCC on FreeBSD or Linux working into Imail's mailbox server. The pb is that if you're using HKSI templates, these lock you in / spoil your users with Imail webmail. NOCC-type stuff is pretty nice, but it's not HKSI. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways 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/ 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/
