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Subject: Re: pop-before-smtp (was Re: FreeInet and checking mail?)
From: Alexander Nosenko (naetitul.ru)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 01:16:29 CDT

> Brad Knowles <blkskynet.be> writes:
>
> > 9000 unique logins? We have over 600,000 mailboxes on one of our
> > servers, with over 400,000 active accounts...

IMAP server with 400.000 (or even 9000) accounts 50MB each is much more of
Document Database Server than a mailserver, with all database problems
attached (backup/concurrency/reliability/replicating/security/resources etc.
etc.) and a IMAP access language as a (relatively minor) feature. MS
Exchange and Lotus Notes goes all the way to being a (distributed) database
and Cyrus is on the march ;-) While it's a very interesting topic per se,
it's a bit outside of this maillist (IMHO).
I think IMAP is really a database access protocol masqueraded as
mail-reading protocol to avoid too many questions...

Regards,
Alexander Nosenko <naetitul.ru> 

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