Thank you Bonno and Rod for your helpful replies. You guys are right, it looks like I wont be giving up my imgate machine anytime soon. I contacted SmarterMail and it turns out it's a not scalable solution, they say that their box can accommodate around 40k users. I still love their GUI interface and the stats they provide, so I will use them and imgate, but looks like declude will be out. SM provides a lot of built-in spam measures.
I asked them a few question and thought I would share it with the rest: 1 - The limitation of 40k, is it for active user sessions? or just a number of emails accounts possible per server? - The limit of 40,000 users is a practical one for total users based on typical activity on a mail server in a hosting environment. 40,000 concurrent users is not possible on a single Windows-based machine because of socket limitations. 2 - Is smartermail clustarable? - SmarterMail is not currently clusterable 3 - Where are the user accounts stored? - User accounts and all configuration data is stored in the file system in a combination of XML and proprietary files. 4 - Can SM utilize SQL ? - SmarterMail cannot currently tie into database systems 5 - Can SM work/utilize windows x64 platform ? - SmarterMail can run under 64 bit 6 - Is it possible to have the web mail on a separate machine than where the SM engine runs ? - The web mail currently has to be on the same machine as the other protocols. This actually leads to the best performance in our experience. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bonno Bloksma Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail Hi, If you have it now, how much time and effort do you need to invest to keep in going? As far as I know IMGate is pretty much a "fire and forget" setup for the basic function. As you mailserver will definitely like having IMGate as an inbound filter and maybe even as an outbound mailer I would simply leave it in place. If you don't intend to keep it in the future just set up a protocol for removing it when you are ready to do so. That way if the server does fail at an inconvenient moment you'll have all the steps to take in front of you and it should take just minutes to get things going. Met vriendelijke groet, Bonno Bloksma hoofd systeembeheer tio hogeschool hotelmanagement en toerisme begijnenhof 8-12 / 5611 el eindhoven t 040 296 28 28 / f 040 237 35 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.tio.nl ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar K. To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:39 AM Subject: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail Thanks everyone for the helpful replies. I am actually debating whether I still need my imgate or not. Still testing and have not migrated my heavy domains yet. Will keep list posted on my findings regarding load and spam. -----Original Message----- From: roger weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail We switched to SmarterMail several years ago and with the latest release have actually eliminated our external IMGate filtering server as we had to deal with too many (> 1000) domains coming from several disjoint (FreeBSD, Linux, windows, external customer's) mail servers (not just 1 SmarterMail). The new greylisting feature in SmarterMail really cut down on spam making this possible. I still have it in place for use as a filtering server for a select few domains and as a backup MX server. If you decide you still need your IMGate server you just need to switch to a new program to export your users to IMGate. This is available for free on the Smartertools site. Here is a link to the instructions: http://www.smartertools.com/downloads/smartermail/smailusr-readme.pdf and here is the download: ftp://ftp.balloons.com/pub/smailusr.zip If you want to save some money on Smarter Mail we offer it at 10% off of list price. Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 28, 2007 11:26 AM Subject: [IMGate] Re: switching to smartermail To: [email protected] >I have finally decided to move to the latest version of SmarterMail from >imail v6. What are some of the things I need to look at or take into >account when doing the switch in regards to imgate setup ? nothing, except the Windows script for exporting Smartermail users to Imgate. Len -- Do you like it hot? http://www.spicymama.com Hot Pepper/BBQ/Wing sauce for those who like it hot.
