Hi Ron, Our typical installation look like this:
C:\program files\IMail --> Binaries D:\IMail --> Basic data directory D:\IMail\Spool --> Spool and log directory D:\IMail\Web --> WebMail, valid for all Hosts D:\IMail\Hosts --> Topdirectory for all hosts D:\IMail\Hosts\IpHost_com --> The IP-Host D:\IMail\Hosts\MyDomain_com --> Virtual Host (Subdirs: 'users', 'lists') The goal of this structure is to separate programs and the data as good as possible. After that, IMail writes to the files 'imonitor.dat' and 'kill.lst' only. Ipwitch didn't realize separating Programs and data is one of the basic things in the it-business ;-( So, we have to do some work, but it's easy if you are experienced working with the registry. Ipswitch adds the main host into program directory by default. So, you have move the antispam files to 'D:\IMail\Hosts\IpHost_com', the user dir to 'D:\IMail\Hosts\IpHost_com\Users' and so on. Some of the directories are changeable via the IMail Administrator, some are not. It's faster to edit in the registry directly: - Stop all IMail Servcies. - This are the registry settings you have to edit: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Domains\IpHost_com' 'TopDir' 'D:\IMail\Hosts\IpHost_com' HKLM\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Global' 'SpoolDir' 'D:\IMail\Spool' HKLM\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Global' 'UsersDir' 'D:\IMail\Hosts\IpHost_com\Users' HKLM\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\ssl' 'LogFilePath' 'D:\IMail\SSL HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WHOISD32\Parameters' 'Database' 'D:\IMail\Cfg\whois.db' If you like, you can also move the certificates to an other directory: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\ssl' 'CertificatePath' 'D:\IMail\server.crt' HKLM\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\ssl' 'Keypath' 'D:\IMail\server.key' - For each virtual host you have to change to path too, eg. from C:\IMail\foobar_ch to D:\IMail\Hosts\foobar_ch The easiest way to this: Export the registry hive 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail' to a text file, open it with a editor and apply a search and replace. Edit the files %SYSTEMROOT%\iwebcal.ini and %SYSTEMROOT%\iwebmsg.ini and change the path pointing to the webmail. At the end, move the directories to the new location and restart the services. I ask ipswitch to separate the spool-files and the log-files in different directories ages ago. But they are not able or willing to do this, grrrrr... Normaly we have the logs on a third (physical) drive E: to avoid bottlenecks, eg. E:\Logs\Apache, E:\Logs\MS-SQL... Since Version 8.10 we have OpenLDAP. This stupid piece of software must stay in the original directory. It's not yet possible the move the data to a different location. ==================================== Am Samstag, 19. Juni 2004 um 02:07 schrieben Sie: > I have taken over an IMail 7.07 server on a Windows 2000 Server. Two > 8.5GB hard disks are installed in this server. IMail was originally > setup with one partition on one drive and uses the same partition as the > system. The second drive was added to copy backups of the mailboxes. > The server handles around 400 or 500 mailboxes and is filling up the > system partition. > Does anybody have any suggestions of how I could best use the second > drive if I stop using it for backups of the mailboxes? Could I change > the spool folder to sit on the second drive? Could I compress the > folders on the C:\ drive to save space (using NTFS file compression)? > Will this kill the performance? > Thanks for any suggestions. > -ron > 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/ ==================================== -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen ==================================== Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 ==================================== 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/
