sunrise Friendly Mail Horizontally Vertically Scalable High Availability
sunrise Friendly Mail Horizontally & Vertically Scalable High Availability Mail Engine Jon Griffiths, 06. 2001
Key Features Completely Open Source standards & interfaces. Completely scalable. Completely modular. High availability. Directory based. Low cost implementation based on PC hardware and GPL technologies.
Future Development • Directory based SPAM control, per user, per group, or global. • Virus checking by user, group, or global.
So how do we deliver e-mail? User Mail Store Write Storage Cluster Reception Cluster Address Verify & Mail Store Location LDAP user info store Address verify & envelope rewrite
So how do we read e-mail? User Interface Web. Mail/Mail. Client eg Outlook or Hotmail POP 3/IMAP 4 Proxy Clusters POP 3/IMAP 4 Home Clusters Mail Store Home Cluster Id & Connection Proxy Authentication & Mail Store location LDAP user info store
Why LDAP Enabled? Scalability Structural flexibility Access control User management
System Administration System Administrators are often presented with a product that has not considered their needs For Example…. . Emergency counter-measures (ILOVEYOU) System Overloads (incorrect POP 3 configuration) System Maintenance F-Mail is designed with the administrator in mind. Due to the positioning of the data stores, behind the reception & proxy interfaces. Mailboxes can be moved between disks, between clusters, and even between geographic locations, silently. Each hardware & software interface can be replaced, or upgraded as and when desired. No requirement for 2 a. m. infrastructure changes!
Friendly Mail All internal interfaces at 1 Gb All clusters hardware load balanced All points in redundant configuration Every component can be replaced or upgraded. Hardware & Software, independent of ALL other components
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