>The Registry is faster than SQL. Preemptive: note that I am not talking about the Imail Admin's DISPLAY of your userbase, but the speed of the DAEMONS' access to the userbase. The display of Registry users is slower than SQL for a large userbase because the Registry API's key enumeration functions are like entry-by-entry cursors, whereas SELECT * against a client/server back is much more efficient.
In other words: Registry excels at seek, SQL at scan. The former is used to check to perform tasks (send/receive) for specific users, while the latter is used to get all the users in a domain. And if you need to get at your userbase for reporting or billing or any other integration need, SQL is the only functional way. Sandy 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/
