Not all that surprising. The user mailbox files are numerous, maybe in the
1000's, and are constantly growing and shrinking as mail comes in and then
is POPped out, asynchronously. Fragmentation to the max. Attachements of
course make the in/out worse. In spite of MS's early stance the NTFS
doesn't need defragmenting (typical MS political BS), Norton's speeddisk
and Exec Software's Diskkeeper are key admin tools.
Have you put the imail\spool directory and the \maildomains on the same
partition? If so, you're putting the Imail logging files and the user
mailboxes on the same partition. I think it would be better to keep these
on different partitions.
Esp with user's leaving their msgs in their mailbox and accesssing them
from Web Msging, a web msging visitor would cause Imail to scramble all
over the disk to pull together 25 or 50 msgs headers per HTML page.
In fact, I've never seen this discussion here, so I'll throw this out for
starters, as what I think would be a best practice partitioning of an Imail
server:
a: Emergency Repair Diskette!!! vbg
c: system (NT)
d: programs (including Imail + its logging)
e: maildomains-1
f: maildomains-2
Len
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