Flame War! -- IMAP Servers

[Nathan England]

Minor adjustment, only about 100 people will actually use IMAP, the rest are 
pop3 or won't use email at all.

On Thursday 13 July 2006 09:17, Nathan England wrote:
> All,
>
> I have roughly 250 users and we would like the ability to keep email on the
> server. We don't have any specials needs and there aren't enough meetings
> to herald a calendaring effort, so basically only email storage. Currently
> I am using Fedora Core 5 with Dovecot for IMAP. Some users access through
> squirrelmail and others use Outlook Express. I am switching the OE users
> over to thunderbird (and the Office users over to OO.o - another story) and
> most users are utilizing FireFox.
>
> The only real consideration is thousands of emails. Dovecot should be able
> to handle this no sweat, but with only a few users testing the system it
> choked. The machine for the time being is not state-of-the-art by any
> means, but has a 2.4GHZ p4 with HT turned off and 1 GB of ram. Our network
> is only 10/100 and we are not looking into upgrading the switches to 1GB
> any time soon.
>
> I don't mean to start a flame war, I am truly interested in your
> experiences as the wealth of knowledge in this group is quite scary at
> times~!
>
> I appreciate all questions, helpful ideas and bricks thrown my way!
>
> nathan
>
> P.S. As this information might help others I would like to keep it on list,
> but if any of you happen to work for local gov't, please contact me off
> list as I have further questions... storage/retrieval and auditing stuff
> for gov't.

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Nathan England
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nathan at paysonlinux.org
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