Lee's advice is solid. I am an ISP with approximately 10,000 email users running on Win2K with a PIII 733 a gig of RAM and Raid 1 running Declude's Junkmail AND Antivirus and the system is very responsive. Both via client and via the web interface.
-----Original Message----- From: Bud Durland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Slow access We use IMAP exclusively here, although with only 100 users. We've found that a fast disk channel is critical to good IMAP performance. If your new server has IDE drives, it won't perform well. Raid 1 (mirroring) is preferred over Raid 5. Put the spool on a separate set of spindles than the mail store, etc. R. Lee Heath wrote: >Reply to: Hermann Strassner > Re: [IMail Forum] Slow access on Wednesday 10:04:17 AM > >Hermann, is web mail also slow. Since moving from Imail 5 to 7 and 8 >and NT4 and Win2K, we still have slow web mail. I am wondering if your >web mail is also slower. We moved Imail to a new server last night >with faster new hardware hoping to see faster web mail. It speeded >up a bit but is still a serious problem. > >-- >Roger Heath >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.rleeheath.com > > >----- Copy of Original Message(s): ----- > >HS> Hello! > >HS> We changed our Hardware and OS from NT4 SP6a to a new Server and W2000 >HS> SP4. Now we have very slow access to the server. The Clients use mostly >HS> IMAP and Outlook 2000. We have around 800 User in LAN. Web access is >HS> normal speed. I looked in the knowledge base, and i saw possible >HS> problems with the network adapter. I changed it from onboard Broadcom GB >HS> to PCI 3C905, no change. > >HS> Any Suggestions? > >HS> Hermann > > > > >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/ > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- illigitimi non carborundum ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bud Durland, CNE Mold-Rite Plastics Network Administrator http://www.mrpcap.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
