Kevin,
Since an export of my registry is reproducing the problem on your end this
should be something that can be resolved without my having to wait on
2006.2
which is at least a month away.
Bill Foresman
Matrosity Hosting
www.matrosity.com
850.656.2644
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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:43 PM
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] 2006.1 slow web logon issue
Everything was fine with 2006.04a on the same box
Bill Foresman
Matrosity Hosting
www.matrosity.com
850.656.2644
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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 2006.1 slow web logon issue
Here are a few questions to anyone experiencing this issue.
I know I wasn't complaining, but I'll answer anyway :o)
The webmail in the first versions of 2006 were very disappointing in
performance, but have improved continually and dramatically to the point
where I tend to like it. It is still noticeably slower than the old
webmail
in 8.22 but I attribute this to the new gui format and the difference in
my
test and production servers. Yahoo's new webmail is similarly slower than
their old style, and Microsoft's new hotmail, Live is also slower than the
old Hotmail. None of my client computers are what you would call fast, so
I
believe it is a combination of the added functionality slowing down on my
system as well as on the server. Still acceptable if the programs work as
expected, but I would love an additional reduced functionality, lightning
fast version for our users on 566 Celerons like the original Imail webmail
that we could optionally run concurrently with the new version.
FYI I am not experiencing a terrible slowdown issue as far as I can see
running 2006.1 on our test server.
This server is a Dell desktop tower, 1ghz P-III with 512MB ram and a 40GB
IDE 7200 rpm Imail drive, very little activity or usage and just receives
email tagged as spam by our production system to simulate email flow.
I am the only one that logs onto the webmail there although we have done
some testing with multiple users logging on at the same time.
All testing was done locally with a 100MB network connection to the
servers.
Just trying to add more information to the database:
1) What DB are you using for authentication?
Imail database on the test server running 2006.1. Active directory for
our
production system running 8.22.
2) Is the slowness every time you log into any given account or just
the first time you log in and subsequent logins to the same account
are
fine?
No noticable difference between 1st or subsequent logins although due to
the
server's lack of resources, it does seem to take a little longer the first
time anyone accesses the webmail after a long period of no webmail logons.
Equivilent to how long it takes to run a new application on the desktop of
that server as in MS Word or IE. This is not the login process, but just
bringing up the login window in Iclient. Takes ~20 seconds or so before
the
login screen is visable. Subsequent accesses to the login screen are
almost
instant inhouse.
3) Is the slowness for only accounts that have a max mailbox size set?
It does not appear to make a difference.
4) If it's slow on just some accounts, what size are they in terms of
# of messages and disk space?
The slowest user (the spam box) has 818MB in use with a 1.999GB limit that
shows as a 1GB limit on his screen although its bar only goes less than
half
way across and is still green. It has one mailbox with 12.5k msgs using
163MB and many other mailboxes. It has 30~40k msgs in the other various
mailboxes. This user takes ~12 seconds from login to view the messages in
it's inbox. This does not change when I remove the limits. On Imail
8.22,
it takes about 2 seconds to see the mailbox list with about 130MB of disk
space used and ~40k messages in various mailboxes on the production
server.
Once logged in 2006.1 takes about the same time as 8.22 to display a
mailbox
with 12k messages.
My administrative user has no limits on mailbox size or # and has almost
no
mail. It takes ~6 seconds to login and see the contents of the inbox.
This
does not change when I set limits for the user. On Imail 8.22 webmail it
takes ~2 seconds to see the mailbox list.
Hope this helps some,
Doug Traylor
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