----- 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