Building a Scalable High-Availability E-Mail System with Active Directory and More. In early 2006, Marshall University laid out a plan to migrate HOBBIT (Figure 1), an HP OpenVMS cluster handling university-wide e-mail services.
Plagued with increasing spam attacks, this cluster experienced severe performance degradation. Although our employee e-mail store was moved to Microsoft Exchange in recent years, e-mail routing, mailing list and student e-mail store (including IMAP and POP3 services) were still served by OpenVMS with about 30,000 active users. Becky! Becky!
Internet Mail (Japanese version shown) Becky! Internet Mail is the Internet e-mail client. Mercury Mail. Mercury Mail Transport System, Overview The Mercury Mail Transport System is a Mail Server - a program that sends and receives mail on behalf of a group of users on a machine or local area network.
Mail from the outside world is received by Mercury and placed in the addressee's mailbox, where the user can access it at any later point. Messages sent by local users to the outside world are passed to Mercury, which then takes whatever steps are necessary to deliver them, removing the burden from the user's workstation and allowing him to continue with other work. The principal advantages of using a mail server to handle your mail are: Centralization All mail services can be centrally managed and controlled Efficient use of resources If you connect using a dialup connection, then only the mail server needs to be able to access that connection.