Chapter 8: E-Mail Management

Chapter 8: E-Mail Management

Overview

Once you have integrated your mail systems you must ensure that the new links and software run properly and without interruption. There will be problems, of course, but these can be minimized by effective management.

To provide a reliable service you first must carefully plan your mail system and estimate the statistics once it?s up and running. Planning the layout of your mail system is covered in Chapter 7 ; this chapter concentrates on day-to-day management issues.

The choice of mail software will sway all these arguments to a great extent. Pick a badly written e-mail package, and you could find your network swamped with unnecessary traffic from just a few dozen users. The right mail software not only will offer you all the functions you need but carry them out efficiently and reliably.

This chapter looks at the factors that may cause problems to your network, mainly due to network traffic. It describes the different techniques different mail software use when sending mail and how these affect the traffic. This chapter also covers effective management techniques to ensure your mail network runs smoothly, your message data are protected, and your users stay happy.

How Much Traffic Will You Generate?

As your users begin to generate more and more messages, your network easily could get swamped. Not only do messages take up disk space on the post office, they also generate network traffic. It?s worth considering how much traffic your users are likely to generate...

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