I have been watching this thread with interest. We implemented a policy that said...
Email stored on the server that is older than 30 days will be deleted And Email in your SPAM folder will be deleted after 7 days (a la hotmail) No complaints from users at all, mailboxes shrunk to tiny sizes and the non technical users who just clicked the "leave a copy of the message on the server" box (but didn't know why they were doing it) are being forcibly "cleaned up"!!! Speed is up, clients are happy, we have less problems! Cool. Mark Walker WebSelect Ltd www.webselect.net The contents of this e-mail message are confidential as between the sender and the named recipient, and may be legally privileged. Any person receiving this e-mail message not being the named recipient is prohibited from using the contents for any purpose other than to pass it to the named recipient without copying, disclosing or disseminating the contents in any way other than with the express consent of the named recipient. WebSelect Ltd reserves the right to monitor any and all e-mail communications using any part of its network. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Gregg Sent: 30 June 2003 22:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Painfully slow webmail With log-in times like that I'd recommend checking two items: 1) On-demand virus scanning. If you have it, exclude your top-level user folders and the spool folder. 2) Install and run Diskeeper regularly. I've opened a couple of tickets with IPSwitch regarding perfomance prblems logging in to webmail. The page that displays right after you log in is the source of the delays as it scans each mailbox in the users dir and counts the messages. I've asked that they only count the 'main' box messages unless a user configures his account to count all messages in all folders. This would be a huge performace increase. This is not currently possible. There are settings related to 'checking for mail in all folders' but that's not the problem. The webmail still 'counts' messages for the summary page. Regards, David Gregg dgSoft Internet Services Web hosting, Email outsourcing, Dedicated and shared infrastructure solutions. (949) 584-1514 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:46 PM Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Painfully slow webmail > > >I am not talking about 2GB files here at all. You can have 150MB > >and say 10 mailboxes and wait a good 4-6 minutes for the list to > >simply show up in web mail. These are 5ms Seagate Barracudas on > >Adaptec 160 series double wide SCSI with 2.8 GHz machines with 1GB > >ram. Load time on these exact same setups with 5.x was roughly 2 > >seconds. Load time on 8.x is 4-7 minutes. 5.x blew away 8.x on > >speed. Sorry, Len, it is not at all a must to take 4-7 minutes if it > >was 2 seconds on the exact same mailboxes before. > > yep, you're. Your times seem extremely long for that hardware. > > What have other people with same software, similar hardware, and > similar sized mbx's experiencing? > > >There is most definitely a design issue here with such a large discrepancy. > > only if everybody has the same long times as you do. If some/many people > in similar situations are humming along, then the design is less > probable. > > Len > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training: Seattle; Chicago; San Jose; Wash > DC > IMGate.MEIway.com: anti-spam gateway, effective on 1000's of sites, free > > > 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/ > 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/ :: This Email has been scanned for viruses by WebSelect Internet www.webselect.net :: 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/
