Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:09:55 +0100 From: Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Virtual-scalable email Message-ID: <35B5BA72.DD9A5ECE@cablenet.net>
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We have developed a product which we are sure will be of interest to other ISPs. It allows us to handle email for any number of users in any number of domains, each with their own distinct user namespace, all on an unlimited set of machines. -------------------------------------- Some of the features that make this interesting are; User names & passwords are stored in SQL tables and can be easily added/deleted/modified from web forms. As soon as a user is added via the web form then they are able to receive email in the domain that they were added to. The radius server uses the same SQL tables for user authorisation and authorises the user correctly within multiple domains whether the domain name was appended to the username or not. An unlimted number of machines can be deployed to handle incoming mail via SMTP and serve email to users via POP3. Incoming email is stored locally on each SMTP server. The POP3 server collects the email from all the machines when serving the email to the client. So you can define multiple mail servers for the domain and multiple IP addresses for the POP server and whichever pop server the user connects to (by virtue of round-robin DNS) they will get ALL of their email on ALL of the servers. ----------------------------------- We don't have a large userbase so we are interested in finding an ISP with a large userbase who would be willing to test the scalability aspects before we start to market the software. If anyone is interested in trying the software and has a userbase in excess of 10,000 users then please let me know. regards damian -- * Damian Hamill M.D. damian@cablenet.net * CableNet & The Landscape Channel * http://www.cablenet.net/ http://www.landscapetv.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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