Re: [lias] Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

[Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis@nospam.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Gary Reynolds wrote:

> I guess I'm saying that because at uni we have over 3500 students whose
> accounts get updated every semester (thats 3 times in one year) - which
> means more than 10,000 updates.

We already do this for something like 20,000 students throughout the 
year.  The updates run incrementally, every night.

> I personally think that personal accounts on a private mail server is
> defintely the way to go here.

We have a dedicated student mail server.  It's constantly loaded.
We are investigating Web mail clients for the students  (IMP) but 
haven't made a lot of progress yet.

I'll be interested to see where this thread goes......


rachel


Rachel Polanskis                 University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Senior UNIX Admin                PO Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747
Systems && Operations            Information Technology Services, Kingswood
r.polanskis@nospam.nepean.uws.edu.au    Phone: +61 (0247) 360 291

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