----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael" michael.ross@atice.org To: users@lists.roundcube.net Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:44 PM Subject: Re: Question about RoundCubeMail setup
Hi Anthony,
I'm setting up a very specialized email service that will ultimately need to support a few hundred thousand users or more. From looking at the code, I am left wondering if I need to install a separate IMAP server or does RoundCubeMail handle it all? If I do need to install an IMAP server, can anyone suggest one in particular? Right now, I'm seriously looking at Cyrus.
Roundcube is a browser based IMAP client. To use it you need a seperate IMAP server.
Given the system size you want to deploy, I'm not certain what IMAP server to suggest. Hosting a few hundred thousand users will present a fair few issues to be resolved (bandwidth, server specs etc..).
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your quick response. I was suspecting that I might need a backend IMAP server to run with RCM but wanted to make sure it was an absolute requirement. I suppose I should have noticed the word "client" in the description and that would have answered my question. lol
It seems that the server specs and bandwidth aren't going to be that much of a problem as we're going to be using a large datacenter and have plenty of servers setup in clusters. Finding a good, reliable IMAP server is going to be a problem it seems. I'll keep looking and, if anyone happens to have any recommendations, please feel free to forward them my way.
Thanks, Anthony