RE: [IMail Forum] many, many (80,000+) accounts

[Tony Gray - System Administrator]

Just to give you my experience:

I have approx. 4000 users under one of my domains, am using an exteral DB
(MS SQL), and I experience the same thing, only not quite so long (about 30
seconds).  When you expand the users tree, Imail administrator basically has
to query the database for each user (so opening your users folder initiates
~80,000 database querys).

While inconvenient, this has been about the only operational flaw I've
experienced in regards to the amount of users.  We administer our users thru
our billing system's interface into SQL, so the only time I even open the
administrator interface is to add/edit/remove a mail host (we host email for
approx. 200 domains), or to inspect the mail queue, logs, etc.

- Tony Gray
Intouch Comm.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Philippe
> Leybaert
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:10 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] many, many (80,000+) accounts
>
>
> I am evaluating IMail 7.0 because the Ipswitch website claims that IMail
> supports more than 100,000 mailboxes on one server.
>
> While this indeed seems to work (I added 80,000 random mailboxes to a
> database), there is one huge problem with this kind of setup. When I go to
> the IMail administrator, and expand the "users" tree, I have to wait 30
> minutes (!!!!) for all accounts to be displayed (it sometimes
> even crashes).
> This is not my idea of 100,000+ supported mailboxes... Unless I am missing
> something. Is there a way to make this work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philippe Leybaert
> Activa Technologies
>
>
>
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