>We just spent a ton of US$$ on this project. I'm not seeing my life flash >before my eyes, after all, in the end it IS just a job, BUT: This is NOT >good news:(
hey, hey, keep the soap opera for afternoon trash TV. :)) >I just called IPSwitch tech support on this issue. They informed me that >they do not support a configuration where the mailboxes are located on a >network share separate from the IMail server, as we're going to implement >it. > I could SWEAR that they told me it would work when we were >investigating whether to go w/this product or w/Merak Mail. Unfortunately, >I don't have it in writing.... I don't follow every thread in this list, but I don't remember you coming in here with that specific issue, which I would have jumped on and recommended STRONGLY AGAINST putting the mailbox storage as network share rather than as a local disk partition. Imail has shown some instabilities when the LOCAL DISK is badly partitoned/fragmented/oversize mailboxes. All of which will be much worse as seen over a LAN. If MS has their MS Networking code in good shape, the network disk "should" work exactly, transparently as a local disk, but 10's of times slower. The slowness may not be a problem if you have few users and/or tiny mailboxes and don't use IMAP or webmail. yep, that's a lot of restrictions. I have a feeling you haven't spent $$$ to work under those restrictions. People have apparently found satisfaction running the mailbox store into some kind multi$ SAN or NAS, but that's not the same as vanilla MS networking, afaik. >Does anybody have experience getting this type of configuration to work >consistently? I had it working fine since I first installed IMail and it >only broke this weekend after running the procedures in this KB article: >IMail - Error: TCP 14 SMTP Service Down. hmm, that doesn't seem to have anything to do with networked mailbox storage. Len ____________________________________________________________________ www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com: Secure config ; DNS and mail interactions IMGate.MEIway.com : Free, proven config for anti-mail-abuse gateways To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
