Cyrus IMAP ; case studies, success stories, ... I need them

[Earl Shannon]

Hello,

We have been using Cyrus at NCSU for some time now. We've only had a
couple of software problems and they've been addressed with bugfixes
now. NCSU is a large university in North Carolina, USA. We have 
four machines we are moving our accounts to that are running Cyrus.
They are E-220R servers from Sun running Solaris. They have a SAN
with 400 Gb of capacity split to provide 100Gb to each server.
We currently have a quota limit for students of 10 Mb and faculty/staff
of 20Mb. Additional quota may be leased if someone needs it.
We have thousands of accounts per machine. 

The shared mailbox feature is nice. Our library uses that to help
shuttle requests around. One of our departments is evaluating
the possibility of using shared mailboxes to help with the amount
of email they recieve asking for information about their programs, etc.
Basically, Cyrus is a solid performer. I've only one big wish and that
is some form of redundancy be built into it.

As someone else also mentioned, we use the Steltor/Oracle Product,
Corporate
Time for calendaring and scheduling. Works for us and even has a nice
web client.

<RANT>
Frankly, I wish people would not insist on this combination of email and
groupware. Email is done best by email software. Groupware should be
able to use email API's to get any messaging done that needs to be
emailed.
We've seen our share of political infighting on campus here with people
using Groupwise because they NEED the groupware capability. Anyway, my
$0.02.
</RANT> 

Best of luck in your endeavor to use Cyrus.

Regards,
Earl Shannon
-- 
Systems Programmer, Computing Services, Information Technology
NC State University.
http://www.earl.ncsu.edu
 
Piet Ruyssinck wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have set up a test machine with cyrus imapd 2.1.11 and everything
> that goes with it.  Very nice system, working perfectly, in a test
> environment of some 30 people.
> 
> Today, I went to see management, to get money for the production system
> hardware (I'm thinking about a full Sun Fire 280R with a full Sun
> StorEdge 3310 SCSI Array),
> ... only to hear that some other people are working on a solution based on MS
> Exchange, because they want the groupware functionality.
> 
> I might be able to convince them to adopt Cyrus imapd, if only I can
> assure them that it will peacefully coexist with MS exchange.  They can
> agree on using Cyrus for e-mail, and Exchange for the groupware stuff.
> But, being a full time unix admin, I have no clue about exchange.  Is
> such a setup possible ?  Or does Exchange rely on its own e-mail system ?
> 
> Together with information, I could also use any Cyrus imapd success
> stories that I can get.
> 
> If you're running Cyrus for a reasonably sized company or institution,
> please let me know, including the hardware you're using, number of
> (simultaneous) users, level of satisfaction, and other useful
> information.  Maybe we could collect this data in some kind of
> registry.
> 
> Looking forward to your replies,
> Piet Ruyssinck
> 
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