[652] in resnet
Re: [off-topic?] Web mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wieland)
Fri Jan 11 16:22:05 2002
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:10:33 -0500
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From: Jeff Wieland <wieland@PURDUE.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
"Don Rea, ISR ResNet Support Coordinator" wrote:
>
> Hey boys and girls,
>
> We are looking seriously at setting up web mail service through Bucknell.
> We a getting a pretty hefty storage box running POP and IMAP, and hope to
> offer Web access as one of the possibilities for checking mail. Does any of
> you have a recommendation for or a recommendation against any of the
> packages available? Any guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ____________________________________________________
>
> Don Rea <rea@bucknell.edu> (570) 577-3278
> ResNet Support Coordinator
> Technology/Media Desk Technical Services Analyst
> Bucknell University Information Services & Resources
> ____________________________________________________
In a previous life (when I was in the Ag. School here at Purdue), I
set up IMP to support 1500 users. IMP has the ability to use multiple
IMAP or POP servers, which we had to have. About half of our users
were on a Netscape IMAP server on campus, and the rest were in the
extension offices throughout the state, and used IMAP servers located
in these offices.
We ran one central IMP server to access about 100 IMAP servers, from
a single Sun Ultra-10. It seemed to scale quite well. IMP is written
in PHP, and was quite easy to tweak to fit our environment. It does
work best with a database like MySQL as the backend.
--
Jeff Wieland | Purdue Data Network
Network Analyst/Engineer | 1408 MATH G139
Voice: (765)496-8234 | Purdue University
FAX: (765)494-0566 | West Lafayette, IN 47907-1408
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