Are you using an external database with ODBCUSER.DLL? If so, that is
probably what's compounding the IMail v6.0x Administrator slowness and
confirm my theory. It appears from what I hear on this list, IMail is
trying to reread every users account a second time after getting it the
first time.
In order to display the list of accounts, IMail sequentially runs through
the GetNextUserEntry API procedure in ODBCUSER.DLL until all users are
displayed. As it's doing this, it also runs GetUserEntry to get the flags
field for the user to determine hair color.. and this is the cause of the
slowdown!
The funny thing about all this is that the GetNextUserEntry function itself
also returns a complete user record, including access flags!! So there's
absolutely no reason why they need to get the user info a second time.
The programmers at IPSwitch apparently couldn't figure this out so they
choose to grab the user info the second time. I bet even after seeing this
message, they still won't be able to figure this out. Perhaps if they,
themselves had written ODBCUSER.DLL and cared to look at the source code,
they'd understand the problem and how to fix it.
Steven Plautz
System Administrator of ISP Operations
Picus Communications - Sybercom, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Scot Desort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail Administrator v6.03 to slow to load!!!!
> It appears that in reworking the user list in the IMAIL admin program so
> that the people's hair color changes based on the priviledge level of the
> user (host admin, site admin), IMAIL must read the level of each user
before
> it determines what color hair to put on the person's head. Seems to me
that
> this might be one of the things slowing down that user list.
>
> I'm also having a problem where the IMAIL Administrator is left in the
> foreground maximized, then some other program is brough to the foreground.
> When I minimize the second program, IMAIL Admin is there, but all of the
> graphics are messed up, some of the gray is replaced with whie boxes, and
> it's generally un-usable until I minimize it then maximize it again so it
> redraws the screen. Happens on both Imail 6.x boxes I have.
>
> Oh well.
>
>
> --
> Scot
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Philip Butler
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 2:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail Administrator v6.03 to slow to load!!!!
>
>
> I did not ever have this problem with the older version, but ever since I
> upgraded, I have had slow administrative processes over all. If anyone
has
> any idea why the new IMAIL 6.03 is running so slow, I'm open to ideas.
I've
> tried some of what has been stated with liitle to now improvement.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Henderson
> To: IMail Group
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:31 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Imail Administrator v6.03 to slow to load!!!!
>
>
> I have tried to get an answer on this in the Knowledge database but found
> nothing.....
>
> When I go on the server to start the Imail Administrator ... It loads but
> takes forever to get all the email accounts listed so I can see them to
edit
> them! Anyone else having this problem? We have several thousand email
> addresses but it actually takes several minutes to get them all so I can
see
> them. Help! Is this normal???
>
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