Hi Waheed I am probably missing something here but why not use ADDALIAS?
-Nick ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Waheed Malek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:16:42 -0800 (PST) >Hi All, > Thank you all for your care and your contribution. >We have reached a solution, and we are about to implement it. The idea of this >solution is: >We have 10 domains and we need the users to have their domains as aliases for theses >domains, but the host aliases are limited to 25 alias.This means that we are limited >to 250 domain. >-We thought about creating a.domain1.com, b.domain1.com, c.domain1.com,..........., >z.domain1.com, a.domain2.com, b.domain2.com, >......z.domain2.com,.........z.domain10.com >-This will make 260 domain instead of 10 >-Then we have 25 alias for each domain, this makes 25*260=6500 domains >-This will solve our problem now, when the number exceeds 6500, we can sart creating >ab.domain1.com, ac.domain1.com, ...etc >-This idea will limit the actual number of the domains to 250 domain, and in the same >time still have 6500 domains for the users (who will not know what's happening behind >the login page). > >This idea has a main problem: We need this process to be done automatically, but >there is NO tool to add HOST ALIAS. So, can anybody help me adding host aliases >automatically? Has anybody involved in this issue before? > >Thanks in advance > >Waheed Malek > >Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have tried all what you said (disk allocation and defragging, >> stale file removal, etc..) >>but the cpu usage on my server is still hogged cause of the huge number of >>domains as I said before. > >ok, does anyone else here have acceptable performance after scaling Imail >to 5K to 10K mail domains? > >>Can you suggest a solution for my server, taking in mind that the number >>of domains still and will go increasing? > >If stuff like what Scott recommended (your Imail won't scale because it's >not using registered RAM) or the well-known "slow registry with W2003 >server" problem doesn't fix it, and nobody else is running 6000 to 10000 >mail domains successfully, then you may be a pioneer. > >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!? >Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes > 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/
