I am using Imail with approx 50 user across 10+ domains. Only on rare
occasions when I use Imail out in the field via our sdsl 277k connection
doesit hang. With a simple refresh or second click ir works fine.
I would also like to be able to scale to 1,000 or more accounts with 20 to
30 people accessing it all the time, but their is concern.
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lyrihn
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 5:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [imail] Slow loading -- Is mailbox size a key?
I hear you len. Yes I want to scale to 10,000 +.
However, right now I have a t1 connecttion to the net. I access imail via
the web.
I have a grnd total of about 100 email accounts with oh say a max. of 2
people accessing the server at any given time.
Scalling to 10,000+ Hell at this point I would pleased to see snappy
performance with scaling to 10 (not 10,000).
Granted, i would not be happy or long, but it's a start :).
Right now if some one said whats the reqs for imail. I would say that for a
user base of TWO accounts a dell powerserver with 256 megr ram and a 600 mhz
piii, snappy 10,000 scsi drives and an ENDUSER conection at T1 is NOT
ENOUGH.
But then, i've had a very rough morning afer a very rough night after a very
rough year, decade and well, you get the point.
CHeers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [imail] Slow loading -- Is mailbox size a key?
>
> >Does anyone else find it ironic that a program as old as imail wich it
> >touted as a web based solution, has such basic flaws that we are
constantly
> >waiting for a fix?
>
> Web mail is a very tricky area, much more than just SMTP/POP3 or even
> IMAP. The browser versions get involved, attachments with diverse
> encodings get involved, both sending and receiving to the
> browser. Plus the server side with a web mail CGI application scales
> very poorly compared to plain SMTP/POP3.
>
> I wonder sometimes if Ipswitch realized what they were getting into
> with Web Messaging, that it would be so popular, with some ISP's
> apparently offering web mail exclusively a la Hot Mail and expecting
> it to scale well to 10's of 1000's of users?
>
> Beyond making Web messaging less browser-sensitive and more robust in
> attachment handling, a possible answer to the performance pb is to
> move the web mail app off of the mailbox server to a dedicated web
> mail server and have web messaging talk to the Imail mailboxes via
> POP3 or IMAP like other web mail solutions do. This would allow as
> many web msging satellite servers as needed to handle a given load,
> without bogging down the main Imail machine. Maybe for Imail7 next year.
>
> >I think as users we have seriously spoiled software companies. Maybe the
> >government out to issue a recall for software as well as tires and cars!
>
> The govt is trying to do something about monopoly profits and abuse
> of power at MS, but a whole lot of people like to be coerced in
> spoiling MS with billions in guaranteed, exorbitant gross margins.
>
> Does anybody know from experience how well MailSite, Vircom, or
> CommuniGate Pro do web messaging??
>
> Len
>
>
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>
>
>
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