>I just did this same thing last month. I ran iMail for 5 or 6 years on a >Pentium 166 with 2 gig drive under NT4.
overkill! :)) > <brag> I got in on one of Dells >infamous pricing mistakes and was able to get a brand new PowerEdge 1.1ghz >server with 20Gb 7200RPM drive for $499 with a $250 rebate ($249 total, >including tax and shipping) </brag> opportunistic, gratuitous upgrade! :)) >and decided to upgrade the mail server with it. The registry transfered >just fine, I had very few problems moving >it over. It is alot easier if you keep iMail on the same drive on the new >machine (if your mail is on C: on the old machine, try to keep mail on C: on >the new one) , otherwise you''ll need to edit the registry. This "do it all in C:" is bad advice for a new system, from a scaleability / maintainability (defrag + backup) view, because one really wants to run separate partitions (better, separate controllers + drives) and __dedicated__ partitions: * system + proggies (but absolute minimum of proggies) * swap (single, system-wide) * imail spool/ dir * mailbox/ dir * more mailbox/ I've heard some guy say, with NTFS5, he thinks putting 40 gb in one partition is just fine. I say he's bending over and holding his ankles. Len www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K 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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
