The DNS server is located on this box, it is MS DNS and is ONLY used by this mailserver for recursion only. I even cleard the cache before I changed the SMTP Processes.
Thanks, Kris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Tolmachoff (Lists) Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] New Gateway Setup 1. Check DNS 2. Check DNS 3. Check DNS John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris McElroy > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] New Gateway Setup > > I setup a new gateway server with the following specs based on suggestions > from this list. > > Dell 1750 > 2.8Ghz Xeon > 1GB Ram > 128 MB Battery Backed Cache RAID CARD > 3 36GB 15k SCSI > 3com 3c905c 10/100 NIC > > Drive 0, Drive 1 RAID 1 > C: 14gb Imail\Declude > D: 5GB SWAP > E: 15gb Declude Logs ONLY! I am Offloading Imail Logs to a seperate > SYSLOG. > > DRIVE 1, > F: Imail Spool > > I brought this server live this morning, started getting emails I was > watching the spool drive, it grew but not fast at first. I then checked > it > about 45 Minutes later the spool drive had 2800 *.smd Files in it and the > \overflow about the same. I sent an Email from my Hotmail account to two > different domains that I have, that two different gateways get, but they > forward mail to the SAME Mailbox server. I received the one in about 1 > minute the other about 45 minutes later. The 45 minute email traveled > through the server that I brought up this morning. I then changed the > SMTP > processes on the gateway server from 30 to 60. Less than an hour later > the > Spool drive has 130 *.smd Files while the overflow has none. I then sent > an > email from my hotmail account and it tool about 2 minutes through the same > server that had just taken 45 minutes. My question of the day is, Are the > 30 SMTP processes not enough to handle the mail without having to spool > it? > Is playing with this setting appropriate in Gateway Situations? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Kris > > > 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/ 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/ 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/
