I have two Imail Gateway's both running Imail 7.15, Declude Virus and
Junkmail, they only relay incoming mail to my POP/SMTP/Web Imail Server.
One server is a Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz, 1GB Ram, 36GB 15K SCSI.  Second is a Dual
PIII 966Mhz, 1GB Ram, 40GB IDE.  I have about 100 Domains that are any where
from slow to moderately busy.  I have the MX Records pointed so that it is
about an equal amount of traffic to each machine.  The PIII is starting to
become "overworked" so it will start spooling up mail around 13,000 Messages
in the spool waiting to be delivered.  So I pointed one of the domains that
is fairly high traffic to my Xeon server.  Well about a day later the xeon
started spooling up mail around 8,000 Messages in the spool waiting to be
delivered.    I increased the Maximum SMTP Processes on the Dual Xeon to
150, to get the mail delivered.  I ran the Imail Log Analyzer and came up
with the following:

SMTPD Connections

Total - 379,093
Occurrences Description

2,724 216.74.144.15
2,695 216.74.144.14
2,622 216.74.144.13
953 209.133.28.63

VERSUS

SMTP Remote Host Deliveries Total - 23,770


I know that this indicates a serious problem.  I can't afford for my mail to
be delayed anywhere from 1 hour to 4 hours, this isn't good business, so I
am up for suggestions.  I know that there are people on this list that Run
Imail Gateways/Servers that see way more volume than I do.

So what should I expect to see from the above mentioned Xeon server Load
wise?

What do most of you have your Maximum SMTP Processes set to?

Should I replace the PIII with another Dual Xeon and Run ROUND Robin DNS for
load balancing?







Thanks,


Kris McElroy
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