You hardware other than the NIC is fine - but to proceed with IMail support, I can assure you they will tell you to try a 3com 100Mb NIC as the first troubleshooting step.
Regards, David Gregg dgSoft Internet Services Web hosting, Email outsourcing, Dedicated and shared infrastructure solutions. (949) 584-1514 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oswaldo Leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:35 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Server recommendation > Yesterday we move IMail to a new server: > Compaq Proliant DL380 > 2 x 36GB SCSI Drives with RAID 1 - System Partition > 4 x 36GB SCSI Drives with RAID 2 - Data Partition > 1.5GB of RAM > HP NC7781 Gigabit Server Adapter - Configured for 100MB Full Duplex > Windows 2000 with latest service packs > IMAIL 8.03 hotfix 1 > > Once we moved the mailboxes at night, everything seemed to be working > fine. At about 3:00am when the email traffic starts to pick up, the > server would not even response to pings. When we looked at the console, > we could not even log in to the server. We tried to troubleshoot the > problem but the server would not stay up for 5min so we had to roll back > to the old server. The logs showed that IMail was trying to send emails > but could not connect to external servers. > > We called IMail and they said that the problem could have been caused by > the NIC card but we could not find anything. > > Anyway, I've been asked to get a new server. What's a good name brand > server that people are using to run IMail? > > Oswaldo > > > > 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/
