5,175> take a previous days's sysMMDD.txt log file > > find /c "ldeliver" /path/to/sysMMDD.txt ( is incoming msgs) 41,025 > find /c "rdeliver" /path/to/sysMMDD.txt ( is outgoing msgs) 10,436
let's call it 60K msgs/day.
It's pretty serious volume, in the middle of the pack, there are tons more Imail's smaller than that, and a quite a few with 200+K msgs/day.> ... roughly, but close enough for all intensive porpoises. How does that compare to most? Is that a large volume?
> ok, going to multiple disks will help. Another SCSI controller+cache will > also help. Quad 10 GHz Xeons WON'T help, unless your machine room is TOO > COLD. :)) The CPU does get up sometimes, but this is also an older machine - dual 400Mhz CPUs. It's only running iMail and Declude.
and it's keeping up, so there's no need to go to dual xeons @ 2+ GHz.
ok, it's your money. Most IMGate sites were IMail and Windows only, and I haven't heard of any of them that dropped IMGate because they couldn't "support" it. The benefits vastly outweigh the tiny involvement with *nix. And since it is, say, FreeBSD and SMTP plumbing, you'll spend a lot less time futzing with it than with end-user support and applications. The "another OS" factor is an imagined hurdle by people who haven't done it. Once they do it, they see the hurdle really was imaginary.> >We were thinking about using LSOFT as a gateway to offload the SMTP traffic. > >Any thoughts on that idea? > > A great product, a huge rental price, but the idea is correct. IMGate is > free (but if "free" means "bad" to your manager, I can solve that problem > FAST!! :)) Free isn't the concern, it's support of the OS. We're a Microsoft-shop and don't want to add an OS into the mix that we can't properly support if needed.
Len
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