Hi,
seems that i have a temporary solution for the problem (web messaging stops
when using ssl while normal http still works) and a hint for Ipswitch to
find the problem:
- the service now works for some days without a problem after changing the
configuration to:
- NOT enable thread pooling
-
Your correct, but you should be able to service Webmail, Imail, IIS, SQL on
a single machine with about 512MB.
no, w2k and SQL = 512 by itself.
Increased use of the swap file will not only bog the machine down, make it
less reliable, but it will shorten the life of the drive and cause more
- We're currently running Raid 5 with SCSI drives. I was thinking about
getting a couple of 60+ GB IDE drives and mirroring them on the new box. Has
anyone done this? How does it compare with SCSI?
you might take a look at 3ware.com, for their RAID cards for ATA
drives. 800 mail accounts is
Earlier I thought there must have been a threading problem in Webmail,
but I retract that now because it ran those 4 weeks with no problems. It's
more like a bad mailbox or message causing it to crash; when we shut the
system down overnight, the person with the problem account used a
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From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IDE vs SCSI, which OS?
- We're currently running Raid 5 with SCSI drives. I was thinking about
getting a couple of 60+ GB IDE drives and
over all work load on your actual mail server. It's a nickel and dime
solution, but then who can afford a new Dell Power edge server?
Their 2U boxes, like most of them, are real rippoffs to buy, and then how
to get it fixed in 30 minutes? build, and fix, your own 2U´s.
Len
We're building 2U servers with dual processor tyan main boards and built-in
promise IDE raid with fantastic results so far... haven't seen a problem
with large files either. Can you be more specific on which hardware to avoid
with built-in IDE raid?
Thanks,
_M
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This is what I thought, though I am unclear on the raid 0, + raid 1. For
instance how many hard drives total would you recommend?
I´d start with 2 controllers with 2 disk each in RAID1 mirror. and if
you´re really concerned with up time, a 3rd hot spare on each controller
that can be
Without going too far into it, and trying to save a little bit of money...
Raid 0+1 requires 4 drives... Two mirrored pairs (each pair acting like a
single drive, that's the raid 0 part) striped together (that's the raid 1
part).
Put that on the one controller and install your OS and IMail
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From: Madscientist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IDE vs SCSI, which OS?
We're building 2U servers with dual processor tyan main boards and
built-in
promise IDE raid with fantastic results so
Hallo !Hopesome onecan help me with the folowing
problem:I did update Imail with the folowing files that i loaded down on
theInternet: IMSrvPatch.exe and IWM6DHF.exe Now the webmail service dose
notstart. And then i try to logon with it locks different and if i try
tologon a "NT login
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what about PCSCAN from TrendMicro, can it be use in with Declude?
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From: John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:37:01 -0500
Declude and McAfee desktop (not server) version. Great
I would like to produce a list of users AND FORWARDS for my Imail
domains. I am aware of the User Export facility built into IM v6 but it
only produces a user list that does not include forwards. Does such a
utility exist? I would appreciate a direct response and post if
possible.
--
Bob
Hi
I just installed Declude and McAfee Note:Desktop only and do not enable the
Shield great, but
if you need McAffe support it's really painfull and no courtesy at all.
Helmer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nizam
Sent: Friday, May 25,
dell pe's are down to 5k each from 15k last year for the identical config.
just got some of the 2550's for my baptists, hippies and farmers here in the
blue ridge.
www.swva.net , yee-haw, we got DSL innnernet raaacheer in Floy-ahd: surf th'
web w' joe-bob and bubba from m' trailer down in the
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Hoagland
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Looking for user list utility
I would like to produce a list of users AND FORWARDS for my Imail
Here's a snippit I've used to send mail with Imail1.exe
$imail1exe = c:\\imail\\imail1.exe; # the location of imail1 on this
system
$sentby = postmaster\@yourdomain.com;
$subject = Undeliverable message (generated by script);
$messagefile = c:\\imail\\spool\\email.txt
system($imail1exe -u
I'm working on a web messaging template, is there any way to get the
!--MailMessageWithoutHeader-- imail tag to NOT put a HR in there?
No, but there *is* a way around it. You can use CSS to force the HR not to
display.
-Scott
Hi Kevin
Keep an eye on Dell's refurbished servers. Most of the time the prices
really suck compared to new ones, but watch at the end of quarter and end of
year. Call a rep and talk to them instead of just looking at inventory on
their site. A few months ago I called and got a Poweredge 4400
Yes.
The biggest problem with PCScan is no supported auto-update of the .exe
itself. The only other issue is that it will error under NT if you don't
specify the /NB parameter to disable boot sector scanning - you don't want it
turned on for declude anyway.
The only place I found to update
Give the complete path and filename when naming files.
Dave
In reply to 24 May message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have a perl script that collects some information and then
emails it to a particular person based on a pull-down. Since
I am just building our Imail server so I'm still trying to
Does thread pooling affect the robustiness of webmail.
Also perhaps a new version could have some parameter to fine tune webmail
according to hardware. Similiar to IIS it could limit incoming requests /
accept maximum message size. My webmail crashed once because some guy was
sending 2 megs
If a user has Forwarding set the addresses to forward to will be found
in a text file, forward.ima, in their directory.
Dave
In reply to 25 May message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I would like to produce a list of users AND FORWARDS for my
Imail domains. I am aware of the User Export facility
Well, that snippit I sent was obviously incomplete. I cut out the sentto
address because I had named it something stupid and thought it was something
else. The corrected snippit follows. Of course you have to generate the
sentto variable definition from your list.
$imail1exe =
Hi
few hours ago i reallize that i cannot contact with my mail server.
Actually I cannot even PING on it!
The most strange thing is that in the SAME PC (winNT4 sp6 - Imail6.06) I have other
IP's (four) that represents other mail servers (different names) and they are working
perfect and the
Sounds like a routing problem to me.
Is the problem IP, the Primary IP for that host (the one not in advanced,
but in the TCPIP settings)? Or is it one of the secondary IPs?
Can I assume that the hostname in your email address is one of the working
ones. It seems to be! Maybe you should include
If you can´t ping, the network interface is down. It has nothing to do with IMail.
Reboot the server.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Periklis Drakos
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum]
Could you have an IP conflict on your network. If this happens, WINNT will
shut down that particular IP address and not respond at all. Check in your
event logs to see if there was a recent error
Hope that helps
Todd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
I have an account that just forwards email to my pager. The pager doesn't
understand HTML, and so renders it as plain text. With the device's 100
character limit (T900 2-way pager), if someone sends me an HTML email, I
usually only see the HTML header information 'cause it gets clipped off
If you can write a program then write one that will strip out the html code and call it as an aliases and let your program then use imail1.exe to send the message to your pager. Just a thought! Good luck with that one.
--- Original Message ---
From: Jeff Demel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Hi
few hours ago i reallize that i cannot contact with my mail server.
Actually I cannot even PING on it! (This is the actuall IP the main one and it's the
147.52.239.101)
The most strange thing is that in the SAME PC (winNT4 sp6 - Imail6.06) I have other
IP's (four seconady -in advanced tcp
What
do you mean "call it as an alias"?
-Jeff
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken
AndersonSent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:18 PMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jeff DemelSubject: Re: [IMail Forum]
HTML to Text before DeliveryIf
Why a 'bug'? IMail is doing as it is supposed to and as the documentation
states!
It might be less than perfect in that there is no way to specify the mode of
operation you want, but a 'bug' is something that is broken, not something
that is not there (at least in my mind!). I found a way to
I get to 147.52.1.98 and then it stops responding.
Usually for me I'd look for a firewall issue, a blocked ip, a route problem
or something along those lines.
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From: Periklis Drakos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject:
The two lines below are examples of an error being reported
on a painfully frequent basis to one of our users.
Now, I can read, so I can see what's happening. However,
does anyone have an idea of what's *causing* it to happen.
I see these same errors sometimes throughout the logs for
other
Any suggestions??
reboot
Len
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--- Original Message ---
From: Jeff Demel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:34:38 -0500
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] HTML to Text before Delivery
Now that I have stated this clearly. Why can't you just disable the
account in the IMail administrator?
Because that only disables them from accessing it... it doesn't stop it
from
receiving.
Now this surprises me. I checked the manual, and it says Turn on 'Account
Access Disabled' to
LOL ;-)
Len... back to the basics..!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum]
Just an FYI: Outlook uses neither the mbx nor the dbx format to store
messages; it uses either PST (Personal Folders) or Exchange Server
mailboxes. I am not aware offhand of the method of clearing state/lock
files under Outlook.
Sandy
At 11:44 AM 5/12/2001, you wrote:
Am not sure if it
I'm hoping someone can help me with a bit of advice. In setting up a domain
I've always used the Imail recommendation (I don't know why just always done
it this way) of the Officical host name = mail.domainname.com (.net, etc.)
and the Alias=domainname.com. However, I remember a vauge reference
That's
interesting. I'll play around with that.
Anyone
out there tried what I'm trying? Any advice?
-Jeff
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken
AndersonSent: Friday, May 25, 2001 1:25 PMTo:
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Hi,
Can anybody help me in understanding how does Imail store the status of read/unread
messages in main.mbx file.
My understanding was the Status: U for Unread(or R for Read) but all the messages have
the same status U whether messsages are read or unread.
REgards,
Shyam
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Thanks I will, but at present we are Ok with the hardware we have the
real point of it all is that you can still get quite a lot of use out of
older machines if you single purpose them. Old systems always seem to
accumulate around the shop. Customers who drop off a machine and never
return
Same here, I get to .98 when traceroute to 147.52.239.101.
Going to 147.52.239.52, is one hop more.
Daniel Donnelly
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From: Smart Business Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25,
Is this user connecting over a slow network (dialup)?
Does this user force close the email client when encountering an error?
My guess is this happens most frequently when there is a larger email file
(attachments are often the cause). And when the user has any problem,
frustration causes them
Just testing for message posting
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ariel Muñoz
Cortés
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 9:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Reject e-mail if mail box sub-folder doesn´t
exist ¿??
When a e-mail
Can anybody help me in understanding how does Imail store the status of
read/unread messages in main.mbx file.
My understanding was the Status: U for Unread(or R for Read) but all the
messages have the same status U whether messsages are read or unread.
IMail stores the read/unread
I've always used the Imail recommendation (I don't know why just always done
it this way) of the Officical host name = mail.domainname.com (.net, etc.)...
I can't seem to find much why about this in the KB or Manual. Any input
greatly appreciated.
You can use either one. The FQDN
Title: Message
Hi
Folks.
I'm hoping you all
can help me out.
I have Imail 5.0. We
had a problem with our router at my office. The integrator did some thing and we
lost the IP address and other crazy stuff that I won't get
into.
Somehow now that our
IP address is back and Imail is up
For good quality servers at a good price has anyone ever looked at the intel
server chasis series ?
The have a full range of models, I was looking at one with built in hotswap
raid, hotswap + redundant psu (redundant was extra), intrusion detection,
proper air flow system, 8 fans and a
Create a nobody alias that points to your destination user, i.e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is in the manual, but I'm not
complaining.
Sandy
At 01:47 PM 4/2/2001, you wrote:
HI! Can someone help me?
I need to know how to set a user account as a wild card. What I mean is
David,
I've said it dozens of times here in the forum, in many threads. Here is the
short answer:
To use anything other than the true hostname for the domain running on the
Primary IP address, one must add an entry in the HOSTS file. See manual
(V6), pg 26, Checking Configuration of the Primary
Has anyone else ever heard of Kapersky AVP ?
It doesn't seem to be very popular in the UK but is big in europe, I run it
side by side with mcaffee and it has picked up several viruses and trojans
that Mcaffee has missed, I also have never had a single problem with it
whereas I have had mcaffee
Hello Daniel,
Thanks for your response. I think I understand. However am still a bit
confused. The domain I was refererring to was a virtual domain(s)
with/without IP address, not the Primay Mail Host.
Pg 31 of 6.0 manual says setup Official Host Name as mail.domain.*** and set
the alias to
Has anyone noticed that these IP's are all the University of Greece ??
Has this been resolved (by a reboot) yet ?
- Original Message -
From: Daniel Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Please help (More Info about
Has anyone else ever heard of Kapersky AVP ?
We have a few customers using Kaspersky, and they seem to be pleased with
it. If I recall correctly, it's a a fair bit more expensive than some of
the other AV programs, but quite good.
Hi All,
I'm running Imail V5 and it's doin' great. What I'm
planning is to acquire another leased line for my
backup as well as my SMTP traffic.
Ex.
ip pool: 212.150.200.10- 212.150.200.10 primary line
mail server : 203.145.66.1 backup
With this setup, users and mail server are in
different
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