>Greetings. I've been looking at purchasing Imail for the last while to
>satisfy a multi-business corporation's needs for web based email. I'm
>wondering what if any major improvements can be seen in the 7.0 release from
>an IT perspective/systems management perspective?
I haven�t been blown away with the
>Also, has anyone looked at Imail in comparision to MailStudio for
>Linux/Solaris? MailStudio has a much more attractive web interface.
yes, but HKSI�s isn�t ugly :))
>I know I
>can customize the Imail one, but beyond looks I'm wondering if anyone has
>done any comparisions of their own feature/performance wise.
I thought about using MailStudio on a satellite machine that accessed POP3
or IMAP mail on Imail. To offload remove webmail server from Imail mailbox
server.
>Also -- how does Imail run on multi-cpu hardware? Does it scale over
>multiple CPUs or would I just be better running multiple hosts with single
>CPUs?
The lattter is ALWAYS better in performance and redundancy. but Imail
doesn�t support multiple front-end servers working into a single mailbox
backend server.
>How many users can be on a say PIII933/512MB before they begin to
>affect the performance of the box?
For pop/smtp traffic only, probably a couple 100K users (need special
attention to the disk setup, tho). for imap/webmail, they don�t scale so
well.
> I plan to run IMgate Incoming and
>Outgoing boxes so the Imail box(es) would just be doing pop3/imap/web mail.
Then I�d start with the one IMail single-cpu and IMgate. IMGate offloads a
ton of work from Imail.
You didn�t say how many mailboxes you have. 10K? 100K?
Len
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