Hi, Thanks everyone for the input! Courier is looking like a great peice of software and i'm excited to start trying it out. Anyway, thanks everyone for the speedy replies,
Cameron Matheson On 7/13/05, Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As others have confirmed and you said yourself. The release number > indicates beta, but that means much less for Open Source software than > commercial. Sam has kept the version number below 1.00 because he feels > it's not feature complete, not because of stability. I've been running > Courier-MTA for a few years now for ~1500 students and it's proven > extremely stable (much more so than the windows mail server that > faculty/staff use). With 100,000 users, you'll definitely want to look > at seperate SMTP and IMAP/POP3 servers plus NFS servers for storage. > Maildir of course, plays very nicely with NFS and such. As for large > users, www.webmail.us, a large email outsourcing company uses > Courier-IMAP for all their accounts. See these sites for details: > > http://www.webmail.us/open-source > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/29/HNwebmail_1.html?OUTSOURCING%20SERVICES > > I'm sure there are other list members who are in the 10k to 100k user > range. With the new IMAP/POP3 proxy code, Sam claims the only > theoritical limit to vertical scaling would be network bandwidth. See > imap/README.proxy in the courier tarball for details. > > Jay > > -- > Jay Lee > Network / Systems Administrator > Information Technology Dept. > Philadelphia Biblical University > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
