What do you mean number of domains? How many? Many of us have 100s or more running fine.
Regards, David Gregg dgSoft Internet Services Web hosting, Email outsourcing, Dedicated and shared infrastructure solutions. (949) 584-1514 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Waheed Malek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:42 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Iwebmsg hogs the cpu (100% usage) > I think I have caught the problem! It's the number of domains. > I have removed almost all the domains from IMail (using the registery) and I found that every thing is ok. When I returned all the domains again, the problem came back. > > I'm thinking of a solution which is creating the sub domains as host aliases for one domain (example: xyz.mycommail.com is an alias for mycommail.com not a new domain) to minimize the number of domains, But this has 2 problems: > > The first is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be actually [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this will prevent [EMAIL PROTECTED] from being created. > > The second: When sending from [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will send as [EMAIL PROTECTED], this means when you receive a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will see the sender is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Any comments? > > Thanks in advance > > Waheed Malek > > > Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- My company has decided to offer the clients the ability to create their > >own domains. These domains are not real domains, but subdomains from our > >real domains. > >Example: we have the domain mycommail.com, and I give them the ability to > >create the domain xyz.mycommail.com, and then create their email accounts > >on this domain, for example : > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >- This offer has increased the number of domains on my mail server with > >about 6000 domains in 15 days. > > you very probably have shot yourself in the foot, as I expect the increased > disk space for 6000 directories and traffic will push your hardware past > comfort, unless you follow the most rigorous tuning and maintenance (disk > allocation and defragging, stale file removal, etc) > > >- In this offer also we offer the mailbox for 50 MB, and attchment size 3 MB. > >- I have found today that some users has reached their maximum mail box > >size in this short period. > > webmail mailbox files > > >What I have Done: > >- I have deleted all the email accounts that have mail box size greater > >than 20 MB > >- I have defragted my hard drive. > > you don't defrag a hard drive, you defrag partitions. the partitions that > most need defragging: imail queue directory, all the mailbox storage. > > you also need to remove stale files from the imail queue dir. > > all of these points have been covered here repeatedly since you have been > this list. > > Len > > _____________________________________________________________________ > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training : London; San Jose; Chicago > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites > > > 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/ > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now 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/
