Martin Hepworth <max...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have a look at the Hermes mail system at cam.Ac.uk, built buy among > people Philip Hazel of exam fame
Philip did not in fact have much to do with Hermes other than writing Exim. (I think he might have had a hand in early versions of our user administration scripts...) Our webmail software "Prayer" was written by David Carter. It's basically Pine for the web - it uses the UW-IMAP c-client library. We handle about 30K active / 5K concurrent users on one webmail server and it isn't breaking a sweat. David also did a lot of customization to Cyrus, mainly replication and undelete. These features are part of the standard Cyrus distribution now, and they hve been significantly improved by the guys at Fastmail.fm. I wrote a description of our setup several years ago. The architecture is still basically the same, though storage volumes are up by a few binary orders of magnitude. http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/ Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ East Malin, East Hebrides: Variable 4, becoming westerly then southwesterly 5 to 7. Moderate or rough. Squally showers. Moderate or good.
