Re: IMAP Implementation People Time Estimates

From: Ondrej Sury (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 08:58:54 EST

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    Well,

    it took one week for skilled unix administrators / architects to fully
    evaluate, install and test Cyrus IMAPD with all the whistles and bells
    (postfix, ldap, sasl, tls).

    Ondrej.

    On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:51 +0100, Marco Colombo wrote:
    > Christopher T. Beers wrote:
    > > We are in the process of evaluating our current student email solution
    > > here at the University and I have been asked to develop some estimates
    > > of the time it takes to research, test and implement this.
    > >
    > > The new system must support 35,000 users with about 1500 concurrent
    > > connections. More than likely the setup will have redundant web front
    > > ends (2 servers running SquirrelMail, IMP, etc), 1 mupdate server, 2
    > > frontend machines and 2 backend Cyrus mail stores. It will run on top
    > > of Linux (RHEL 4 probably).
    > >
    > > We are familiar with UW IMAP server so we have to learn the differences
    > > to go to Cyrus, especially the aggregator, backup/recovery, cyradm,
    > > etc. So keep that in mind.
    > >
    > > If anyone has any data that would even remotely be helpful I would
    > > greatly appreciate it. We are comparing Exchange, MiraPoint and this
    > > (which is much cheaper) but people now want to compare accurate
    > > estimates of people resources to implement it. To me, that is like
    > > asking me how long it would take me to learn [place any abstract task
    > > here that you have never done]. 

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