Paul, Thanks for the thoughts. Although no solutions (as you mentioned), they DO make me think...and wonder...
I tried a few more things that John and IpSwitch suggested...no change: 1) Tried older version of integrated Intel Pro 100 NIC drivers (per IpSwitch). No change. 2) Switched to integrated Broadcom Gigabit NIC (per IpSwitch). No change. 3) Removed IMail completely, reinstalled from scratch. Did NOT migrate all software and settings from current IMail server. Simply left default config (NT Database) intact and copied over test account mail folder. No change. * Notable: Login to webmail without any messages or folders is almost instant. After copying many folders and messages from test account, login went back to 1 minute 25 seconds. Remember, however, that the same account, same messages and folders on the production NT BDC is almost instant. So this *should* not make a difference. 4) Turned on debugging for IMAP and turned off logging for everything else. Logs showed normal activity. Did same with web log. Just showed normal login activity, but with REALLY long pause between the login page and menu page lines. 5) To see if the AD database was causing the problem, (now having clean install with only one mailbox copied from #3 above), I switched the service to IMail local database and restarted all the services. Exactly NO change! Still slow IMAP downloads and still exactly 1 minute, 26 seconds to log into web mail. Now I'm out of ideas. So far I've completely wiped out IMail and started with a fresh install, changed NICs and drivers, changed to IMail database, turned logging on and off. But nothign seems to change the fact that this super-fast machine is many many times slower running IMail than a machine with half it's resources running NT and another machine with half it's resources running the same OS and software on a test domain. GRRRRR!!!! --Todd. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Ingram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Tolmachoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to 2000/AD server > Hello, > > Thursday, October 10, 2002, 11:49:15 AM, you wrote: > > John> I have been hoping someone else will chime in on IMAP, as I am not > John> familiar with this. > > This is all IMHO. Just though no answers. > > When i took over here our config was 1 W2k Server in DMZ running Imail > using AD and DNS was installed on that system. > > Everything worked great and we had one login so great again. > > But yes it was Sloooow exspeaclly IMap and Webmail. > > I redid the setup now IMail is now a stand alone and connect to a SQL server > for user DB. And things fly now (ok as fast as I think they are going > to get with Imail anyways). > > Also the first setup was a Raid 5 and now I have > raid 1 for the OS (Also run IIS from this drive KWM is there) > raid 1 for the MBX > singal disk for the IMail dir > singal disk for the spool files > singal disk for system swap files. > All SCSI 10rpm 18gb > HP LH 6000 2 700zeons 1gb sdram > internal raid controller dual chanel 64mb of cach each chanel ( I > think I would have to look again) > 300 logins all very active. 10k messages aday in/out (I know not > really a good measure on how busy the server is) > > Oh by the way I got all the hardware advice from the archives and asking very > pointed question or atleast the best i could.(this comment not for > this thread :)) > > Anyways this problem does not help but I can say getting away from AD > as user DB was the best thing i did. > > Hey may not matter to your setup but you know if you use AD and the > same password and logins are used on your LAN and you do not use SSL > to wrap pop/Imap/Webmail logins anyone with a sniffer can grab them. > Or that was the case here all of are agents come across the NET to POP. > > > > > -- > Best regards, > ~Paul~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus/McAfee] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
