Well, it took one week for skilled unix administrators / architects to fully evaluate, install and test Cyrus IMAPD with all the whistles and bells (postfix, ldap, sasl, tls).
Ondrej. On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:51 +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: > Christopher T. Beers wrote: > > We are in the process of evaluating our current student email solution > > here at the University and I have been asked to develop some estimates > > of the time it takes to research, test and implement this. > > > > The new system must support 35,000 users with about 1500 concurrent > > connections. More than likely the setup will have redundant web front > > ends (2 servers running SquirrelMail, IMP, etc), 1 mupdate server, 2 > > frontend machines and 2 backend Cyrus mail stores. It will run on top > > of Linux (RHEL 4 probably). > > > > We are familiar with UW IMAP server so we have to learn the differences > > to go to Cyrus, especially the aggregator, backup/recovery, cyradm, > > etc. So keep that in mind. > > > > If anyone has any data that would even remotely be helpful I would > > greatly appreciate it. We are comparing Exchange, MiraPoint and this > > (which is much cheaper) but people now want to compare accurate > > estimates of people resources to implement it. To me, that is like > > asking me how long it would take me to learn [place any abstract task > > here that you have never done]. -- Ondrej Sury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
