> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:44:16PM -0700, Avery Day wrote: >> Does anyone think going completely webmail based using squirrelmail for >> the MUA is a bad idea? Does anyone have any thoughts on this at all? Is >> there anyone in this mailing list that has done this before? If so I >> would >> love to hear about how it has worked out. > We've done this. We encountered incredible hostility from a small > minority, resentment or resignation from a larger minority, positive > feedback from a significant minority.
Us too. We used to use a free system called Mercury but it was hugely unpopular due to speed/reliability. We now use Qmail/Courier and SquirrelMail as our only supported MUA. We currently have 5000 users and it works like a charm. > You'll need to examine what they can currently do with their mail > clients and be able to offer similar functions or workarounds. One > major lack in Squirrel is multiple address books. I have solved this by > patching Squirrel to consult a table (we use database storage for <snip> We had similar issues. I took the same route as yourself, patching and adding features as requested. > As for your hardware, I'd recommend going dual processor. Frees up a > lot of bottlenecks. Put the IMAP mailstore and SquirrelMail on > different servers and (if you can) put an extra NIC in both machines and > give them a dedicated link on a special subnet. I would definetely agree here. We have a single Xeon CPU at the moment (3Ghz) but it does struggle a little at times (when performing large mail shots.) I've also found, for us at least, memory is also an issue. We currently have 512 and the server now and again goes into swap due to the sheer amount of concurrent users. We're adding another 512 next week so it should solve that problem. :-) --- Paul Elliott, Network Technician Bishop Burton College (01964) 553000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
