>Hi Duane,
>
>You could try MailSite: http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite.htm.
>
>We have many customers running the product with Emerald without any
>performance problems. We also have many customers switching from NTMail.
>Here is a recent message from one customer about Emerald:
>
>From: Steve Williams
>To: mailsite-discuss@rockliffe.com
>Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 6:19 PM
>Subject: Re: MailSite and Radius
>
>>>I am not using MailSite just yet but am interested in some stats and
usage
>>situations. I would be very interested to know your experiences relating
>to:
>>>
>>>1. Using MailSite with Radius Authentication.
>>
>>With an Emerald database? Works perfectly.
>
>Regards, John.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Duane Schaub <dschaub@terraworld.net>
>To: emerald@emerald.iea.com <emerald@emerald.iea.com>
>Date: Thursday, February 05, 1998 8:37 AM
>Subject: NTMail Performance
>
>
>>I am getting poor performance from my NTmail/Emerald setup.
>>
>>NTMail is running on a machine with 128Mb ram/P200(Just a plain old 200)
>>and IIS4 with a few domains. After running for a day or so, POP and SMTP
>>occupy about 70-90 MB of RAM by themselves, and inetinfo user another
40Mb.
>> It takes about 24 hours to reach these ram levels. Immediately after
boot
>>up, only about 71 Mb (including disk cache) is in use. I believe that the
>>inetinfo size is due to IIS caching its web content.
>>
>>Anyway, SQL is on a different server p166/96Mb RAM. When a user checks
POP
>>mail, it takes 10-15 seconds for emer_ntm to retrieve the user info from
>>the DB. It almost seems like it has to login to the SQL server or
>>something like that. The SQL server only has about 10-15% CPU utilization
>>and considerable idletime on the Harddrive. It appears to just be sitting
>>there after the pop request has come in.
>>
>>Is this performance normal with NTmail? I have a number of users
>>complaining that SOME of their incoming mail is bouncing back to the
sender
>>with invalid user errors. This is only some mail. Also, when checking
pop
>>mail sometimes users get "Invalid username/password". They can check
again
>>a few seconds later and it works. The problem is that some users
>>immediately start playing with their system and screw it up. Then I spent
>>the next half hour trying to fix them.
>>
>>Here's one for Dale.... Can you make an SQL script that will generate a
>>file (like radius) that can bet run with the command line ntmail program
to
>>save the users to the ntmail registry. This will allow users to bypass
the
>>ntmail.dll and full utlilize the aliases, etc within emerald. If this can
>>be done in an external program or as an SQL script, then I can schedule it
>>to run periodically during the day. This will reduce the loading on the
>>SQL server and reduce network traffic plus significantly enhance the
>>reliability of the NTmail server since it won't rely on the ODBC
>>connection... Which seems shaky at best.
>>
>>Duane.
>>
>>
>>
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=
>>
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