>I'm sunning IMAIL 7.04. (sp2)
>
>The IMAP service max out the cpu for long periods occasionally.
>
>Certain users over here have mailboxes greater than
>500mb.

insanity

>Will these mailbox sizes still cause and issue even though
>our server has a 1gb of ram, dual 927mhz processors as well as
>300gb disk running on 2000 advanced server.

.mbx files are flat, non-indexed text files.  to read the headers, the imap 
(or web messaging) server has to read all 500 mbytes of a single text file, 
end to end.  The situation is badly aggravated when the mailbox partition 
is badly fragmented, which is typical.  Multiply that by the number of 
simultaneously connected users.

Len


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