RE: [xmail] Widespread Use?

[Paul Heijman]

This is an issue with win95... Not really a server os. Windows 95 will hang after 49.7 days (if not sooner ;-) (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q216/6/41.asp) If you're not using Win9x (desktop OS's), but WinNT 4 or Win2k (Server or Pro) and you're not using it as a desktop (installing screensavers, seti@home, icq, etc.) and you have decent hardware and you know what you're doing there's no need to reboot for months... (I'm using Win2k and Linux both as a server; they both have pro's and cons, so please don't take this as a M$ ad ;-)   As for xmail on win2k: once we used it to send 100+ visitors an email with an 2MB attachment (on request of course ;-)... Xmail handled it perfectly: the only 'errors' came from recipients with a Hotmail account (max 1MB message size)   HTH,   Paul    -----Original Message----- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:44 PM To: Tracy Martin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [xmail] Widespread Use? If you are running your servers on the Microsoft platform, the rule of thumb from Microsoft tech support themselves is to reboot your servers at least once per week.  The software was not meant to be up and running continuous for longer periods of time.  There are some issues with the OS...   So, as a certified global network engineer, it is my recommendation to everyone out there to reboot those Microsoft servers once per week.. Make it part of your downtime weekly plan and schedule that time with your production schedules...   Thanks... Ed Carroll - CEO of TheNet4You http://www.thenet4you.com     ----- Original Message ----- From: Tracy Martin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 7:43 PM Subject: RE: [xmail] Widespread Use? Well, obviously I can't speak for others, but I have it running on a Win2K Server handling thousands of pieces of mail per day for 15 - 20 users. The machine it's running on hasn't been rebooted in over a month. No strain, no problems (so far)...:)   Took a little doing to get everything configured right, though...:) -----Original Message----- From: Digitalpeer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 19:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Widespread Use? I'm a net admin and CS major in the process of checking out Xmail.  So = far, I really like it, but am curious about how it is being applied out = there.  Where is it being used?  What is the average number of users?  = How much mail in and out a month?  Stability?  Disaster recovery?  How = many servers are running it?  I plan on writing a worthwhile ASP = interface to it if all goes well- is there already a worthy web = interface to it out there? -DiGitalPeeR