Aloha Rishikesh.
When you say you set it up locally, what was the configuration ?
1) you are running it (exchange and smartermail) on 2 different servers on the same physical network ?
If so, is your network all gigabit ?
2) you are running it on the same physical server with virtual machines as the servers ?
3) or was it some other setup ? number of switch hops, speed of the network, competing with other traffic ? etc ?
4) Is this for a single domain with 2900 users or is this several hundred domains or ? what is the setup ? (looks like you guys are a hosting company?)
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