dovecot - Sep 2004 - Comments on planned migration to Dovecot

Our office of about 100 users is presently running its mail through an
Exchange 5.5 Server. The Exchange server is protected by Linux server
pass-through server running Exim4.

We intend to move all of our mail and directory services to open source
software, probably Exim4, Dovecot and OpenLDAP.

We have a mixture of mail clients. These include Mac OS9 Entourage
(about 30%), OSX Entourage (20%) and Apple Mail (50%). About 30
individuals also look in to their mailboxes using squirrelmail.

Each user is permitted a mailbox of no more than 20MB in size. Project
mailboxes may rise to 200MB, however, with up to 5 simultaneous users
connection to each project mailbox.

I would be grateful for comments on the suitability of deploying Dovecot
in this production environment. I already use Dovecot for a small number
of users in a different environment (Mac Eudora, XP Outlook,
Squirrelmail) and it appears to work without fault.

Rory

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Rory Campbell-Lange 
<rory at campbell-lange.net>
<www.campbell-lange.net>