>>What is "e-mail monitor"?
>
>In Imail you have the ability to forward a copy of all inbound and
>outbound e-mail to one account for "monitoring" purposes.
That won't have too much affect on the CPU usage, and won't have any effect
on the number of files in the queue.
Have you checked to see where those 1,000's of files are coming
from? Either some type of bulk mailing is going on, or the server is
*very* slow.
> > Try to download what? The E-mails in the queue, or do you just mean a
> standard POP3 connection downloading the E-mail?
>
>The box that contains the copy of the inbound and outbound e-mail. We do
>not "download" or retrieve the e-mail but once or twice during the day.
You need to change that. If you have a mail volume of about 15,000
E-mails/day, and want a copy of all of them sent to one account that is
only checked once or twice a day, that account is going to have to download
about 7,500 to 15,000 E-mails via POP3. That's not going to work
well. With 600MB of daily traffic, that's about 1/2 GIG of E-mail that
you're going to be downloading. That could cause the server to slow down
so much that you would have 30 concurrent SMTP processes, causing overflow,
and 1000's of E-mails in the queue.
I hate to break it to you, but that just isn't going to work
well. SMTP/POP3 weren't designed to transfer 10,000's of E-mails all at
once. If you have to do that (I know how bosses can be!), then the answer
to your original question "Is it time to upgrade?" would be yes.
Your boss must be an amazing speed reader. Reading 15,000 E-mails/day
(assuming 8 hours a day to sleep, eat, rest, etc.) would mean that he can
read an E-mail in 4 seconds. Not bad!
-Scott
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