Excerpts from mail: 8-Jul-94 Re: e-mail over AFS ! Marc
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> The need is for a standard protocol for doing mailbox manipulations
> which is file-system-independent.
Sure -- makes sense.
How would this fit into a network that consists of 10,000 PCs, 3,500
Macs, 1,000 UNIX hosts and various other platforms, as ours does?
Could you dedicate a dozen or so IMAP servers for campus mail service?
Maybe. But how then would you establish 1) consistent userid mappings;
2) a common authentication service; 3) a central management framework
for handling account generation, backup, archiving and general mail
store administration and maintenance?
The DCE framework can handle most of this nicely. It's intended for
this kind of application. If DFS is part your DCE framework, it might
be worth working it in somehow to manage the mail store. Without it,
you need to cook up a lot of home-grown management tools to administer
the servers.
