0-IMAP In 90 Days or How to Migrate 25,000 Users to IMAP in Three Months

摘要

The University of Pittsburgh began the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Project in the spring of 1997 as an evaluation project investigating the replacement options for the legacy e-mail systems and a POP3 service. The project was initailly divided into two phases-Phase 1 to deploy an IMAP server for campuswide use and Phase 2 to idenify and provide a reliable, high quality, enterprise-wide IMAP client, A sub-group of the IMAP project team was formed to identify requirements and evaluate clients. Cyrusoft International's Mulberry was found to meet the ever chaning requiements of the campus computing labsl and have sufficient features and functionality that users would be complled to switch from their legacy clients to the new environement.