Len,
Thanks for the queue & disk controller suggestions. I'll look into
implementing them. I've watched the advice you've given to others
for several weeks (I'm relatively new to this list), and I tend to
"take notice" when you (and several others) post comments. (I
appreciate your unique sense of humor as well.)
Gordon
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Len Conrad wrote:
>
> Gordon,
>
> One thing you might consider doing is having the Imail queue directory
> (common to all virtual domains) which is driveX:\imail\spool on a disk
> separate from what we call here the "usr" directory, below which all the
> mail domains have their private trees, ie, the mail user's mailboxes:
>
> disk1:\imail\spool
>
> disk2:\usr\virtdomain1
> \virtdomain2
> \virtdomain3
> \virtdomain4
>
> If you could put disk1 and disk2 on different SCSI controllers with 64 or
> 128 megs of cache (see the Asus SCSI cards), even better. I think you will
> have horrendous traffic on disk2 because the all users will leave all their
> mail on the server, never downloading, and way too infrequently deleting it.
>
> Also, the mailbox disk will become horribly fragmented as msgs are
> continuously created and deleted, so having DiskKeeper running continuously
> will keep the fragmentation down.
>
> Len
>
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