Most of our users are POP3 and we do have seperate mirrored drives for the spool and the MBX files. But we do have a salesforce that has an 80mb size limit on thei accounts. There are about 50 sales personell. Otherusers are given the ability to store messages on the server for up to 7 days.
Then there is the all_mail_delivery account that saves mail for two of the domains on the server into seperate MBX files and can get up to 1 gig. On our old hardware I had a process renaming moving the file once a week to an alternate folder on the same disk. Then moving it off disk. Athough your answer helps a little it does not answer my origional question. > >should I stop qmanager and SMTP before doing the defrag of the user mbx and spool disks??? Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Defragging > > > Kevin, > > No. > > This is also mostly unnecessary if you put your spool on a separate > partition, log everything to the spool partition, and move the logs off > of that partition on a daily basis. The logs are what get terribly > fragmented, essentially everything from IMail, Declude and Sniffer due > to the way that things are logged. The only other thing that tends to > get noticeably fragmented are your IMail accounts, which should also be > on a separate partition in order to isolate the effects. This won't be > an issue hardly at all however if most of your customers use POP3 to > retrieve their E-mail and delete it from the server because every time a > file is modified in this way, it is rewritten, thus the fragments are > removed (appending to a file causes fragments). > > Matt > > > > Kevin Bilbee wrote: > > >We just installed new hardware for our Imail server. We want to start > >defragging on a regular basis. My question is should I stop qmanager and > >SMTP before doing the defrag of the user mbx and spool disks??? > > > > > > > >Kevin Bilbee > > > > > > > >--- > >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > >--- >This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > > -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ ===================================================== --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.