Hi,
We have a Compaq DL-360 (2 x 1,33 Ghz, 2 GB RAM) which worked pretty good
with about 120 Domains. 2 Weeks ago we added 99 Domains and since then, the
server is in under heavy load. The Queue Manager needs more CPU power, more
than expected. We have about 1 Mails local deliver per day and
Your server should be able to handle that just fine IMHO. Of course, this
would depend on what virus scanners youre using, spam filtering, etc
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Schaible
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:25 AM
To:
We have a Compaq DL-360 (2 x 1,33 Ghz, 2 GB RAM) which worked
pretty good with about 120 Domains. 2 Weeks ago we added 99 Domains
and since then, the server is in under heavy load. The Queue Manager needs
more CPU power, more than expected. We have about 1 Mails local
deliver per day and 3500
Hello All,
We are planning on upgrading soon from 8.22 and I have a script that
runs every week that checks for accounts that are not being used by
looking at the lastlog.in file and also the web messaging time stamp in
our SQL Server database. That way I check both POP3 logins and Webmail
Hi Martin,
You should be well within the limits of a single server. What else do you have
running in terms of spam and virus filtering?
I would check for dead blacklists, which can delay mail processing and lead to
overload, as well as check your average message processing time in the logs.
I found that if I allow access to a group and put IP in the setting
appears to stick, or has so far anyway. I was doing it as a single IP
and that wasn't working at all.
Sanford Whiteman wrote:
Ok, now this is getting annoying... IMail Access Control is set to
DENY all computers
Hi Will,
I have tried to upgrade from version 2006.1 to 2006.2 with SQL but it fails as
variuos email passwords are deleted once the client try to login and following
is the reply from IPSwitch:
There is a know defect in the way that has a problem with using SQL as an
external database in
Hi,
Thanks for tips.
We have Antivirus standard (Bitdefender), mxGuard with INVURI and
MessageSniffer. I cleaned up rules.ima for old an unused rules. The file is
now below 100k, before it was 160K. I heard, that a big rules.ima could be
one reason for big cpu loads. I think, i see the result
POP3 updates lastlog.in just as before. Web messaging does not update this
file, nor the lastlogin field in the database record. Web Messaging updates
some .UID files in the user's folder, but I haven't checked to see if web
messaging is the only thing that touches these files.
Just
Wow! No emergency hotfix? What if you have 500 domains to disable the full
mailbox notification and 20,000 users randomly losing passwords?
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From: Mauro Lanci
To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail
Thanks Mike,
Kevin had told me about those issues, but we do not use the Full Mailbox
notification, so that is not an issue here. I can see where it would be
a huge issue though.
Thanks for the tip on the web.config update.
We are testing all of this on a test box this afternoon with
Martin,
It should handle 10,000 email easily and well tuned much more than that
perhaps 30k + emails a day. However, there are a lot of variables to
consider not least how well your hard drives are working especially disk
i/o.
Have you done all the normal stuff like chkdsk, defrag etc. It pays
invURIBL can use a lot of CPU. Does MXGuard have a weighting scenario? If so,
can you use Pete McNeil's WeightGate app with it? Doing so could save you from
running invURIBL on messages you already know are going to be held/blocked/etc.
Also, you might try running Sniffer in persistent mode.
Hi Mike N,
Agreed.
we've been working on patch that we plan to release in the next day or so
and which we'll roll into the next release as well.
bye for now,
kg
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:23
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The password loss we have observed happens when a user's mailbox is filling
and the full mailbox notification is sent to the user. We are working on a
replacement DLL now and it will be posted soon.
Tripp
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Hi,
We do defrag the d drive every two hours with OO Defrag. Our baby-server
has only two drives configured as RAID1. I think, the disks are quited
bored, if i look to the SNMP-Monitoring.
Also mxGuard, INVURIBL and MessageSniffer do not stress the CPU. It's like
always the *QueueManager*.
Hi Darin,
We're using mxGuard to check the several DNSLBL. All other tests are not in
use. What is WeightApp?
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
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Merlin Consulting | Martin Schaible
Bahnhofstrasse 27 | CH-8702
Can someone at IPSwitch confirm when the .uid files are updated?
Thanks,
Grant Griffith
Web Application Developer
Enhanced Telecommunications
http://www.etczone.com
812-932-1000
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Sent:
It's Pete McNeil's (from Message Sniffer). It's available on their website.
It allows you to pass an incoming weight to the program and based on that,
conditionally execute another program.
We use it with Declude to only run invURIBL when the message is within a
certain weight range. That
.UID files can be updated anytime the associated mailbox is accessed by any
of the IMail services (POP, IMAP, Web Client, Queue Manager etc).
Tripp
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Griffith
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:33 PM
To:
Thanks very much,
Today is not our day anyway. A guy from the power department tried to test
the diesel generator and he cutted of the whole datacenter from power
*twice*. Such an idiot. Hundrets of server went down twice. The bad thing
was, that the power was partially available , instead of
Thanks for the info Tripp. Therefore you are telling me that I can rely
on this .uid file to tell if the mailbox has been accessed at all?
Therefore I would be able to ignore the lastlog.in file after upgrading?
Thanks,
Grant Griffith
Web Application Developer
Enhanced Telecommunications
Hi there.
We were managing 15k messages per day before install assp.
Assp had reduced it to 4k. (greylisting, SPF, DNSBL, MX, PTR know addresses
validations)
We have very low spam ratios in user mailboxes now. Our costumers are very
happy.
Our box is p4 2600 / 1GB / w2k3 r2 / imail / ClamAV /
Martin,
The defrag could be adding to your disk i/o load unless it defrags very
quickly. Have you tried defragging every 24 hours instead? I'm not
questioning your motives as you may have very good reason to defrag so
often. If your disk's are bored then it is unlikley to be a i/o problem
(worth
We don't recommend that you ever manually access the .uid or .mbx files as
you could interrupt other processes using the files. If you're thinking of
using this to determine if an account is inactive I don't think that's a
valid case as the account probably will still be receiving mail (spam)
Tripp,
That is exactly what we are doing right now by checking the lastlog.in
file timestamp and the database field. Is there a way to determine if
they have logged in via webmail to see if they are using it anymore? We
basically mark the account as dormant and disable it if it is not used
It appears that email, even local users to local user, is not being sent
once it is received. I do see it send after Queue timer expires. I've also
manually tried the 'Send All' button to force the Queue to send but nothing
happens. Can anyone else confirm this?
Tnx,
~Rick
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While not as quick as checking the directory, 2006.2 adds a nice login audit
string to the webserver log file -
2007-03-13 00:01:25 1.2.3.4 - 192.168.1.33 443 POST /IClient/login.aspx
Login+Attempt:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:+en-US 302
Hi David,
OO Defrag is very quick and needs more or less no ressources. We started
defragmenting on a daily bases watching the disk acitivity via SNMP. We
started to defrag the disks every 6 hours and at the end, 2 hours looked
optimal. Maybe it sounds a bit like Voodoo, but the disks have less
I have a p4 3 gig with 1 gig ram 2x 36g drives, we receive about 8k
messages a day with 1 domain and 75 users. We put a Barracuda 300 in front
and have cut the load from the server down to about 500 messages a day,
this figure is only from incoming messages and does not include intra office
Right now 2006+ does not modify the lastlog.in file; we'll look at options
for future releases. But, you can turn on the ability for 2006.2 to put web
login lines into the IIS logs.
Tripp
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Griffith
Sent: Tuesday,
OO Defrag is very quick and needs more or less no ressources. We
started defragmenting on a daily bases watching the disk acitivity
via SNMP. We started to defrag the disks every 6 hours and at the
end, 2 hours looked optimal. Maybe it sounds a bit like Voodoo, but
the disks have less to do
Correcting myself: the 2006+ web client does not modify the lastlog.in
file. We didn't modify the usage of the file by other services.
Tripp
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tripp Allen
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:43 PM
To:
Spoke too soon. Just happened again.
Jeffery Rehm wrote:
I found that if I allow access to a group and put IP in the setting
appears to stick, or has so far anyway. I was doing it as a single IP
and that wasn't working at all.
Sanford Whiteman wrote:
Ok, now this is getting
Hi,
We're using the DNS from the ISP. In fact, this IMail server is also our own
second DNS. Better idea to use our own DNS-servers, which are available in
the local network?
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
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Hi,
It's Compaq DL-360, which have only two disks. I don't see the benefit to
have the spool files on the same Array but in on a different partition.
Makes this really a difference?
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
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Check your Imail server activation status. Sounds like Queue Manager is not
processing and that happens on the end of the trial period.
John T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Imail_Forum-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Klinge
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007
If you do many DNS lookups (and if using mxGuard, you certainly are doing a
lot of DNS lookups), then it is best to use your own DNS server for these
lookups. Too many ISPs are overburdened or limit the number of requests you
send their way.
Regards,
David Gregg
dgSoft Internet Services
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No. Same array, diff partition, no gain. Do the defrag, use your own DNS
servers, run sniffer in persistent mode. Make certain each of the DNBS
blacklists you have configured are working and responsive.
Rest assured that mxGuard will only do as many tests as are requird to test
for spam. In
Jeff,
Try removing the auto deny possible hack attempts check mark and see if
it doesn't stop.
Matt
Jeffery Rehm wrote:
Spoke too soon. Just happened again.
Jeffery Rehm wrote:
I found that if I allow access to a group and put IP in the setting
appears to stick, or has so far
Hi David,
In meantime, MessageSniffer works as a service and in persistent mode.
I have to re-find a article at spamhaus.org. So far i remember, an another
DNSBL uses their services, which we probably using too.
mxGuard needs like always more or less no resources, that not the issue.
Efficient
Hi,
One issue I can interject is recursion timeouts on MS Windows DNS. Note that
this applies to the name server shipped with Windows NT, Windows 2000, or
Windows 2003.
This issue applies particularly to A, MX, and PTR record lookups for domains
that are not active in the responsible name
It's Compaq DL-360, which have only two disks. I don't see the benefit to
have the spool files on the same Array but in on a different partition.
Makes this really a difference?
When a partition has X amt of used space plus X+ amt of free space,
the defragging is much faster and more
Hi,
A long time ago, we sayed goodbye to MS DNS. In a hosting environment
running without AD, SimpleDNS is way better. And for some control panels
like HELM, SimpleDNS is more or less mandatory, since the API for MS-DNS is
buggy.
My next therapy is to use the local DNS for my poor mail-server
Well clicking the About button pops up -
Product Name: ICS Standard
Activation Key: xxx 'hidden'
Version Number: 9.2
Licenced User Count: Unlimited
I believe I've activated our license prior/during install. Digging through
piles of KB's for last 4 hours and trying various settings, hacks,
I don't post much on this list, BUT I have to say ... you have all
been very helpful over the years.
My recent post on router advice even off subject gathered several
helpful and very polite responses.
I really appreciate it.
David
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