Hello...
Thanks for help...
I have two
Imail servers..... In emergencies (like we had last week), we moved from one to
the other...
Our new box
is a dual Zeon running w2003. We moved to it on Thursday because of the overload
we were experiencing on our older servers (two PIII processors but running raid
5)..
The new
server was setup with two sets of drives running RAID1, one set for mailboxes
and one set for queue/spool.
Yesterday AM, our new IMail machine (which we had only
been on for 1 days) lost network connectivity, although the server was
running fine. If rebooted, connectivity reappeared and it worked fine until
Imail started to get too much activity and then we lost connectivity again....
We changed to the second built in network card, and everything was OK again
until activity built up (we added a couple of IPs at a time) and then we lost
connectivity.
So, I moved back to the old
server....
My question is, when moving from server to server, is
there a way to 'merge' the registry keys so we don't lose any domains and other
registry key settings that are on the 'other machine' (that we are merging
to)? I plan on using the second machine backup and
for SMTP Auth traffic taking that load off the other Imail machine
(leaving POP/HTTP and IMAP).
BTW.... , we
also have an IMGate machine that Len has been helping us with and all our new
accounts filter through there (we are moving our legacy accounts there as well,
but there are hundreds and hundreds of zone files and mx records to
change...)
Second
Question: Has anyone experienced the loss of connectivity problem? IPswitch told
me to change brand of network cards... Somehow I don't think that is the problem
because I did that on the other machine as well when suggested and that didn't
help the issue at the time.
Third
Question: If it isn't iMail that caused the connectivity issue (we turned off
the power management feature on the card and that didn't help either...., one
tech at Ipswitch had that tip)...., it must be the OS so I am going to rebuild
the machine before I migrate back to it... I am thinking of going back to W2K,
only because I have seen two issues that concerned me. The first one was when I
couldn't change the port from 8383 to 80 using the Imail administrator (on the
W2003 install)..... The change wouldn't take place...., we had to change the INI
file directly after talking to Ipswitch... Also, I noticed that Imail
administrator loaded very slowly when there is heavy activity (a problem I am
not experiencing on W2K)...
Thanks again
for your help.
MB
