[K12OSN] Emails for large districts

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 14:53 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 16:37 -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> > Our district has about 16,000 employees of varying types and is
> > currently using a web-based Exchange server to do email. The system is
> > slow, clunky, and the database is getting full, so we've been told to
> > clean out our mailboxes because they're going to delete all mail older
> > than 30 days.
> > 
> > My question is this--does anyone have experience with a system that
> > will scale reasonably to that many users. If so, we have about 90,000
> > students. Know of a system that will scale that big? The head IT guy
> > tells me that he was quoted a commercial cost of between $250k and
> > $500k for a system that would handle us, and, while that doesn't
> > surprise me, I think something effective could be done much more
> > economically.
> > 
> > I'm just wondering if there's anything I can point to and say, see!
> ----
> trying to be a hero?
> 
> someone is gonna have to be responsible for the thing and that would
> seem to be the head IT guy. Perhaps he isn't knowledgeable about e-mail
> systems and just wants to dump off responsibility to someone else (i.e.
> a contractor) but who can blame him...it's a job.
> 
> Cyrus-IMAPd - clearly the tiger in the tank...
> 
> http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2007-October/027147.html
> 
> Check out this months Linux Journal - precisely on topic
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found it...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9804

The idea is that my usage and from what I see on cyrus-imapd mail list
is that this is a behemoth mail server and capable of handling massive
user base/volume (obviously hardware must be consistent with those
needs).

The first link I included, if you follow the thread, their problem was
indeed solved and that was one of a few reports of massive installations
reported on the list.

Craig