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Re: [off-topic?] Web mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Peters)
Mon Jan 14 04:40:09 2002
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:37:21 +0100
Reply-To: peter.peters@civ.utwente.nl
From: Peter Peters <P.G.M.Peters@civ.utwente.nl>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <3C3F54C9.B12855CD@purdue.edu>
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:10:33 -0500, you wrote:
>> Hey boys and girls,
I feel young. :-)
>> 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.
>
>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 use IMP for 6000 students and most of the staff. We use the ability
to have different servers because allmost every department has its own
mailserver.
>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.
We have it running on a dual celeron 366. But the mainbord is a bit
flacky. Occasionally we loose one CPU. We have budgetted two new
machines. One for the database and one for the webfrontend.
--
Peter Peters
senior netwerkbeheerder, Centrum voor Informatievoorziening,
Universiteit Twente, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede
telefoon: +31 53 489 2301, fax:+31 53 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ
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