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Why Internet mail gets out of control and how to avoid going postal (continued)
What's next?
This article only scratches the surface for Internet email and capacity planning but it does set the stage for solid analysis and planning by pointing out key considerations and practical tips. In a future issue, we'll have a look at coexistence and migration of SMTP email services for Lotus cc:Mail and Domino.
Special thanks to D. Kahvedjian for inspiring this series of articles.
Glossary
Here's helpful glossary of terms:
- CSMA/CD: Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
- IMAP4: Internet Mail Access Protocol version 4
- LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- MIME: Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
- MPS: Messages Per Second, a relative measure of email traffic used for server sizing
- POP3: Post Office Protocol version 3
- S/MIME: Secure MIME (see MIME)
- SMTP: Simple Mail; Transfer Protocol
- SSL: Secure Sockets Layer, a standard for the encryption of IP datagrams
- X.509: A standard for digital certificates and encryption used in S/MIME
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Andrew Stuart is a software designer, consultant and Lotus Domino programmer and has been working with computers for 16 years. Andrew is Managing Director of Touchdown Systems Design in Melbourne Australia at http://www.touchdown.com.au. He can be reached at astuart@mira.net.
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