Roger Heath wrote: > We have been dealing with this for some time. 5.x was lightning fast > and we have complaints every day now after 7.x->8.x migration. We have > actually lost some business because of this. My own opinion is that is > is a serious misdesign in Imail itself.
By this reasoning, Word, Excel, etc. all suffer from the same "serious misdesign" as IMail. It takes them a looong them to load a 2 GB document or spreadsheet ;) > It now parses for a lot of > information in every MBX file when loading. The bigger the MBX the > worse this gets real fast. If your user downloads all their email and > the MBX files are small there is no problem. We saved some business by > moving some people from webmail to Outlook, and this was hard on us > time wise. We still have requests to move back to version 5.x by angry > users. Even though 5.x did not do as much parsing when opening a mailbox, I cannot understand how Webmail was "lightning fast". > Support at Ipswitch told us it was our older Seagate SCSI drives, but > we just do not buy this. We only had a problem when we went to 7.x > then 8.x To use it is the most serious problem with Imail now and it > is a bad one. 5.x was instant on the loading. Are you sure that you had 2 GB mailboxes when you were using 5.x? Guy 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/
