This is NOT normal. We use IMAP for hundreds of users on a PIII-400 without any problem at all in terms of performance. There are people on this list that use IMAP for much larger client bases.
Ben Bednarz BC Web ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Hitchcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] *Update* to Enforcing Limits for IMAP storage > Is this experience typical? > > I purchased iMail expressly to get away from POP3 and use IMAP, and the thought of a big machine brought to its knees > processing one IMAP user is not encouraging. > > As for dealing with storage, Maxtor 160 GB IDE's are $300. Strap six onto a PROMISE IDE RAID card and you've got 800 GB > of RAID5 for just over $2000. > > Jeff Hitchcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Wolf > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] *Update* to Enforcing Limits for IMAP storage > > > I'm kind of suprised anyone is using IMAP. I have Imail running on a P4 2.0 > with 1GB of RAM and one single IMAP user checking their mail maxes out the > CPU. Try and get two concurrent IMAP customers checking mail at the same > time and it just won't work. You can't even access the server via POP3 > while IMAP is checking. Takes only about 5 seconds for IMAP per customer, > but it's an effective DoS if they just wanted to check their mail over and > over. > > POP3 doesn't hardly move the CPU meter. IMAP maxes it out. > > -Joe > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Frazer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:13 PM > Subject: [IMail Forum] *Update* to Enforcing Limits for IMAP storage > > > > Wanted to give everyone an update on this situation.. > > There is no way to enforce global limits to IMAP storage. Any new > > account created via web mail, will not have these limits. This is what > > the nice lady *cough* at Ipswitch told me. So any ISP's out there trying > > to set limits for storage, etc. you will have to find another method. > > > > Dan Frazer > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Frazer > > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:15 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [IMail Forum] Enforcing Limits for IMAP storage > > > > Trying to enforce set limits with IP-less Virtual Hosts to reduce > > problems caused by large mailboxes, but it doesn't seem to work. At the > > domain level Setting Default Max Mailbox Size does nothing. Setting it > > at the Users level will affect only account created through the GUI > > interface. If you create them with command line adduser or via web > > messaging, the limits are not set. I will be going through the registry > > to make the global changes, but what good is it if the next time a user > > creates a new account via web messaging it doesn't have the set limits. > > > > Also trying to set a Single Message Max Size limit, but it won't work. > > Found a KB article that said to set it at the default domain level. This > > also didn't work. > > > > Called Ipswitch last Wednesday about this issue, they said they would > > call back with an answer. Still waiting.. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > -Dan Frazer > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
