Had the same SLOW problem with IMail web pages for about 6 months. After upgrade form NT4.0 to Server 2000 the problem went away.
Same machine,,same ram,,different O/S fred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:45 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] 3Com NICs Not Created Equal > Just a quick note that should be made here. We thank Eric Shanbrom at > Ipswitch for finally tracing down our server SMTP problems to an > inappropriate NIC. We have always used 3Com, and had a new card in our > server, but it was an 'SX' model which I now have learned is targeted > for desktop use, not server use. We did not know this could make a > difference. We put in an old TX B NIC in and the packet loss problems > went away. The other issue was SMTP speed. We noticed a substantial > increase in SMTP if we turn logging off all together. It is > disappointing to turn this off because we cannot do stats, but it is > so much faster, we would rather have the speed. The logging causes so > much of a delay that some of our Blat CGI/Perl scripts were timing out > very badly. With logging turned off, this is not the case. > > Unfortunately we still have a serious problem with Webmail being slow > as ever. Replacing the card did not fix this. My own brother has begun > using Yahoo after using my system for over five years, deciding Imail > Webmail is virtually unusable. We have tried everything. We replaced > thr drive, tried text only templates, everything... but it can take > 1-3 minutes to navigate a lot of mailboxes on each request. Version 5 > was one second where Imail 7 and 8 is ridiculously slow. We are open > to any suggestions as to how to resolve this serious problem which has > lasted for months. > > -- > Roger Heath > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.rleeheath.com > > > -- > ActivatorMail(tm) ver.00922031 Scanned for all viruses by > www.activatormail.com intelligent anti-virus anti-spam service > > > 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/
