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.
I have no wishes, I give people on this list, esp anyone running 500K/msgs day and who has been in contact about their problem directly with Ipswitch, the respect of the benefit of the doubt to be worth their salary.
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.
ok, then make it avaialable.
Please don't try telling me
I don't try telling you anything
you've never seen a mailbox server which, though adequately protected against inbound SMTP abuse via MX offload, is undersized for outbound SMTP
IMGate sites send outbound SMTP (and its DNS load) to IMGate.
POP3, and IWEBMSG.
I have yet to have, in about 5 years, a distressed Imail admin come to me to install IMGate and not have ALL his Imail reliability/performance problems immediately and permanently solved with IMGate.
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.
postfix or IMGate/postfix?
I know you rarely touch IMail servers
you know wrong
but I'd hope you admit this situation is prevalent.
See my experience above. I remember that, IIRC, Jeff/Ikano had bad POP3 problems even using a unix box for outbound, but IIRC, he wasn't using an IMGate -type defense for SMTP inbound. So what I know about that IKano situation, now years old, is not a counter-example to all the other postivie experiences I've had with fixing 100% of Imail problems with IMGate.
> 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.
I have no anti-Imail bias. I have yet to recommend here or elsewhere that anybody drop IMail. But one-box solutions are so easily and unnecessarily overwhelmed, esp in the current, worsening SMTP environment, and especially when its so easy to have superior, scaelebale multi-box solutions that permit Imail admins to retain both Imail and their current Imail boxes for much longer than they had imagined.
Several IMGate users have been told point-blank by Ipswitch to fix their specific Imail problems by installing IMGate. One well known weakness is Imail's vulnerability to being overwhelmed with unknown recipient rejections.
You don't need to plug it on responses to my posts.
Since when do I post exclusively for you, rather than for the entire list? I post what I post, and whether you like/disagree with it or not is incredibly irrelevant. If you don't want responses from me, simply quit butting in to my exchanges with other posters.
Len
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