> I also assumed that, with that kind of investment in time and money
> and aggro trying to scale to that msg volume, and as a follower of
> this list, the admin is not an idiot (or he wouldn't gotten even
> that far) and would have configged and tuned and best-practiced as
> much as he can, worked with MS, Imail, Declude, whomever to the max,
> over weeks or months, and still couldn't get Imail to scale.
It's wishful thinking to assume that a system presented in such
general terms ("have an array") and which _cannot be defragged_ has
been sized and configured correctly as a mailbox server. If the system
has undergone mailserver-specific and site-specific optimization, the
specific configuration should be easily made available to those you
are consulting for support.
Please don't try telling me you've never seen a mailbox server which,
though adequately protected against inbound SMTP abuse via MX offload,
is undersized for outbound SMTP, POP3, and IWEBMSG. At clients'
request, I have resized, for example, servers originally hosting
500,000+ POP3/SMTP accounts off a single RAID 5 x 5 array. Postfix was
the entry point for inbound mail both before and after this
much-needed upgrade.
I know you rarely touch IMail servers, but I'd hope you admit this
situation is prevalent.
> We wiped windows/imail/declude from his MX boxes 2 months ago, I
> installed IMgate, and his nightmare was over.
Your anti-IMail, anti-Declude stance is old news to me. You don't need
to plug it on responses to my posts.
--Sandy
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