I need to size a new server to host Imail for approx. 2000 users.
If you can find one, a P200 with 64 megs would be overkill, for POP3
and SMTP services.
If you want to run a lot of simultaneous, or exclusivly, Web
Messaging access, you're going to need 10x more power (MHz and RAM).
Len
We run around 60K users per server (one dual CPU 500mhz with 512MB of RAM
and lots of disk space) and have had zero problems. We have handled over
300K messages in the last month with no difficulties. It is supposed to
scale to 150K users per machine with no problems.
But what's your avg CPU,
I check the NT host file already and it does have the IP address of
the mail server.
One little question I got
the IP address of the mail server is 206.207.93.102
The server name is payette.bsu.net
There are at least 3 server names: MS networking name, tcp/ip host
name, and then in
Hi Scott,
How is your evaluation on this product? We're considering
conversion to VOPMail. We're sick of hearing "Imail is designed that way"
from their tech support on something that is CLEARLY a bug.
-Mark McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Siteserver Network!
Voice: 800.610.9856, Ext.
Scott,
How is your evaluation on this product? We're considering
conversion to VOPMail. We're sick of hearing "Imail is designed that way"
from their tech support on something that is CLEARLY a bug.
Let me know what you think about VOPMail. I'm intrested too.
regards,
Patrick Mast
Is there a way to exctract every mail/attachment and to let it go
through a virus scanning engine? Maybe with aliases or something like that?
A desktop virus scanner would be too slow, esp if trying to scan the
mail after it was in the mailboxes, it has to a purpose-built .dll
scanner for
Hi Patrick/Ipswitch,
I don't know why it needs to come down to this, but we're starting
to look for alternatives to replace IMail on our mail servers due to the
lack of support/fixes for *known* bugs that have went untouched for over 6
months (unacceptable for businesses that depend on
I'll bet i know exactly what it is. A bug. Do you have "Relay for Local
Hosts Only" or "Relay for Local Users Only" checked? It doesn't scan the
ETRN Hosts file for some reason.
-Mark McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Siteserver Network!
Voice: 800.610.9856, Ext. 231 - Fax: 888.333.2710
Look at this closely:
"SMTP Port 25 Secure SSL no socket error 10060. Error # OX8OOCOE."
It's NOT using SSL, it says "SSL no". Same as SSL=NO, stupid but that's
what it's saying.
-Original Message-
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:26 PM
Mark,
Please keep me/us posted on the results ok?
Thanks for the explanation!
regards,
Patrick Mast
www.PatrickMast.com
Hi Patrick/Ipswitch,
I don't know why it needs to come down to this, but we're starting
to look for alternatives to replace IMail on our mail servers due to the
lack
Bill,
I appreciate the suggestion, and I did try it. But it didn't make a
difference here.
We've got some old 486s kicking around and I've got a copy of Red Hat that
I should be able to dig up. At this point we are looking at going that
route for DNS.
Who knows it might also be a mail
* IMail needs to block users from adding 50 aliases
agreed, Imail should defend itself better.
ditto for SMTP AUTH process not being able to kick itself back into action.
* SQL7 Support, SQL2000 is almost out already. What is the hold-up?
agreed, mailsite vopmail do better here.
I'll bet i know exactly what it is. A bug. Do you have "Relay for Local
Hosts Only" or "Relay for Local Users Only" checked? It doesn't scan the
ETRN Hosts file for some reason.
Imail (and IMgate's postfix and sendmail) handle ETRN as a case of
"relay for addresses" where the ETRN
The best solution is to put a 5mb limit on messages anyway. A 10mb file will
take over 2 hours on a dialup line, not to mention the 10mb x 2 hit on
server bandwith.
Until everyone has a broadband connection, files this size are better sent
by ftp or by isdn!
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From:
I've attached a screen shot of the error I get. Attachment testing
for 2 and 4 mb files worked in both directions (send/receive) but
as you can see 10 mb fails. These tests were done with IE 5.5 on a
192mb Ram 20GB hdd system.
I think that's a limit of IE. Looking at the code, IMail
I also use pcanywhere for remote admin but only allow access
through my firewalls VPN. I can't recall any specific exploits but
if its sitting out there with nothing in front of it I'm sure its
hackable. Just my 2 cents.
At 03:00 AM 8/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
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From:
... we're starting to look for alternatives to replace IMail on our
mail servers due to the lack of support/fixes for *known* bugs that
have went untouched for over 6 months...
IMail needs to block users from adding 50 aliases if this will
crash the server (which it does)
This one is
Ipswitch,
Could you please block the IP address 202.54.10.1 from connecting to your server
until they fix their problem? That is the IP address they are connecting to your
server with.
-Scott
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Hello All,
Can anyone that is really strong with SQL Server 7.0 help me out?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am getting an "A connection could not be established to servername, Specified
SQL Server not found" error. Happened after rebooting and installing Media Houses
Live Stats software?
Just upgraded to 6.04 and the Web MEssaging patch. Anyone know what might be causing
this one? I should of waited another week I guess.
Thanks,
Grant Griffith
-- Original Message --
From: "Gary Mauer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 02:28:09
Mark,
I admire your candor! I've been saying, in general, the same thing for a
very long time. IPswitch releases version after version of Imail without
fixing basic problems that have been public for months or even years! Some
of the same problems in v5.x are still problems in 6.04.
There is
Terry,
10 MB is the limit of any single message attachments via Web Messaging (pg 3
IMail V6 manual).
Daniel Donnelly
- Original Message -
From: "Terry Parks" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 24,
Daniel, thanks for the reply. I sent a snippet of my SMTP logs the first time I posted
and you pointed out the DNS zone was FUBAR. This time I refrained from that because it
didn't seem to lend any insight into the matter. However, I may have gotten lucky with
the last post. After posting,
At any rate, I think we're making progress. I haven't received my
regular morning 'can't send mail! I need my mail!' email messages
from my clients so maybe we've gotten lucky.
Have you changed anything???
Len
http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4
Hello All,
Nevermind this earlier message. It appears SQL decided to go into evaluation mode
and expire. Reinstalled purchased version and things are running good again. Was
running since JAnuary '00, anyone else ever had something like this BS??
Thanks,
Grant Griffith
--
Heh,
Had the same problem with our NT Servers Goes to show how "good"
Microsoft products are eh?
-Pat
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From: "Grant Griffith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum]NEVERMIND!!! Sorry for the OT!
Dear List:
Our company has been using IMail 4.08 for about four years now and we love
the product thus far. One of our clients that we have just aquired has
asked us to host their email for them and it is because of this that I am
looking for some input from those of you that are more
Why limit a particular user/mailbox.
Rather than try to parse Imail's log files, why don't you just dedicated a
machine for their purpose.
Then use MRTG to calculate usage to and from this one machine and then bill
them according to percentage of your total bandwidth consumed.
You can give
I have just tried it several times, and I get the same problem
always. When I attach a WinWord Doc which is 250k, the following
happen I download the Attachment to my desktop, and when I try to
open it give me an error, but if I download the E-mail via POP the
Attachment work fine and I can
Wow, I rarely participate on the list anymore (mostly just monitor), but
I've been using IMail for about 4.5 years, and gone through the many
upgrades and patches during that time period, and been on this list, it
seems like, forever. And my biggest complaint with Ipswitch has always been
that
any one knows how to disable Keep-Alives in Imail web service ver 5.08
Olle.
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I have just tried it several times, and I get the same problem always. When
I attach a WinWord Doc which is 250k, the following happen
I download the Attachment to my desktop, and when I try to open it give me
an error, but if I download the E-mail via POP the Attachment work fine and
I can read
Our average CPU is very low definitely running in the 2-3% range. RAM
utilization is also very low and i/o is low as well. Our staging machines
run their base config and do have sporadic problems with I/O errors and CPU
utilization under heavy loads. We also interface through an ASP custom web
We had thought about doing just that, but the client wants an itemization of
the accounts that are over and how much extra we are charging per account so
they can then bill the end user based on our billing/reporting. We can't
just set a certain limit for bandwidth and bill for exceeding that
Len, yes the smtpd32.exe and it looks like it may do the job.
Jess
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 11:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SMTP error
At any rate, I
Jess,
Thank you for the kind words and special thanks to Joe, for picking this up
on this thread. Good Work!
Daniel Donnelly
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From: "Jess Coburn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August
Len, yes the smtpd32.exe and it looks like it may do the job.
What about this: '451 4.7.1 Please try again later' Bob said that
wasn't in Imail, where was it?
Len
http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4
http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf,
I have reported this problem to Ipswitch many times. Any MS Office document
(Word, Exel, etc.) attachment sent between two domains on the same Imail
server will be altered by Imail most of the time. Imail adds a funny header
to the file, and changes the file extension to .dat. This is NOT a
Terry,
There are quite a number of things that can affect attachments, almost all
of them are outside of IMail! Browsers, email clients, network connections
and more can all affect attechments (and regular mail!). One thing, though,
a simple email message can be as little as about 100 bytes to a
-Original Message-
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 5:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Fw: "cocky" support - IPSWITCH, PLEASE
READTHIS
* IMail needs to block users from adding 50 aliases
agreed, Imail should
Thank you for your response to this. The attachment works up to about 4 MB
but if a 6 MB or larger file is attached the browser reports the file is too
big. We tried Netscape and got the same message. Next to test is Opera. The
three character user id issue is in regular email functionality
So you can't tell me that "Relay for Local Hosts" is not better
than "Relay for All". Now that we have that established
We don't have that established!
The chances of a spammer that wants to abuse your system finding out that the can only
send mail if they use a fake address at your domain:
Fadi,
Try saving the file to disk rather than to the desktop. Now see what
filename, was actually saved. Is it the expected name and size? If it is,
double click on the file and it should open Word and show the file.
Daniel Donnelly
PLEASE tell me what was done to smtpd32.exe. Was the file just corrupt and
you over-wrote it?
I have the same problems with the SMTP service.
Thanks,
Scott Forsythe
-Original Message-
From: Jess Coburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:06 PM
To: [EMAIL
This is the strangest thing I've ever seen.
We have a list we just created and made a trailer (trailer.txt) for it.
In there we have "To unsubscribe please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
later on in the list it says, "To post to the list write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Well, The first E-mail is
payette is the name of the computer.
payette.bsu.net = 206.207.93.102
Yes. mail.bsu.net is only the IMail host name.
-- Original Message --
From: Len Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:12:04 +0200
I check the
What has been everyone's experience with using IMAP with iMail? I'm
about to setup a few clients with IMAP mailboxes. All of my clients
now use POP3 mailboxes.
Any pros and cons?
Thanks,
Marion
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Marion Hawkins
picketfence.com
1207
Terry,
I may have found an idea what is happening with 'invalid' usernames of 3
characters or less, but under the circumstances I tested, it does create a
'postmaster' message and queue it up (although I had to Send One, to make it
deliver ASAP). So you should get the bounced message, even if
First let me preface this with the fact that I am not getting paid by
Ipswitch nor is anyone I know for that matter
As far as tech support goes, it seems to be on a general decline for just
about everyone in the industry. I can only assume it is because of the
world wide shortage of IT
I changed the sentense to "Please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe."
and the e-mail is now printed correctly. What is up with that?!
On 8/25/00 5:06 PM this was written:
This is the strangest thing I've ever seen.
We have a list we just created and made a trailer (trailer.txt) for
My God man. Is their a short version of this book?
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From: "NetQuick Email Admin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Fw: "cocky" support - IPSWITCH, PLEASE READ THIS
First let me preface this
My God man. Is their a short version of this book?
Exactly, If I had this many problems with IMail (and I have), I'd switch to
Vop Mail (and I have) for the main server.
If IMail would just do... (insert here), it'd be different.
Please visit
Yep
With the shortage, companies have to take any idiot who can spell the
name of their product.
Kevin
- Original Message -
From: "dave marchette" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Fw: "cocky" support -
I've had a few customers ask for more POP addresses. What is the going rate
for extra POPs these days?
We don't host a free email service, we include 10 POPs per domain.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John Cesta
http://www.cybersmarts.net
What I think you may be alluding to is a reporting tool that would report by
domain(?).
A young programmer who worked for us and put together a nice domain
statistics program (Unix NT) was encouraged to carry it over into Imail
but I am not sure if he is still looking to do so. He has since
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