SIMS 3.5 from Sun Microsystems (Sun Internet Mail Server)Platforms: Solaris
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Sun Internet Mail Server (SIMS) 3.5 is one of the few e-mail servers with the performance, scalability, reliability, and low total cost of ownership required by today's large commercial enterprises and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). SIMS 3.5 includes new server features such as High Availability, IMAP/POP3 Proxy, and anti-spamming enhancements designed to meet the needs of a commercial or ISP e-mail infrastructure. In SIMS 3.5, the addition of client features such as Sun Web Access software and Messaging Applications Programming Interface (MAPI) support, expands a customer client choices, along with the variety of third-party, standards-based e-mail clients that SIMS supports.
Architected from the ground up for high performance and scalability, SIMS scales cleanly from workgroups to thousands of concurrently active users and dramatically lowers the cost of managing highly reliable e-mail service in the process. SIMS natively support key Internet messaging standards such as ESMTP, MIME, IMAP4 rev1, POP3, LDAP, NOTARY, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) 3.0, DNS, UUCP, and TCP/IP.
Major new features for SIMS 3.5 include:
- Sun Web Access software: Allows users to access their mail
through the use of a Web browser. This HTML-access allows
users to connect from anywhere using the ever popular Web
browser interface.
- MAPI Provider: Enables access to SIMS from Microsoft MAPI
e-mail clients such as Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
Outlook 97.
- High Availability: Provides fail-over support for SIMS to
minimize a customers downtime for their messaging services.
Based on the Sun Enterprise Cluster 2.1 architecture, this
asymmetric architecture is designed to provide availability
of the messaging systems.
- POP and IMAP Proxy: Extends SIMS scalability by offering
horizontal scalability using IMAP and POP proxy servers.
- Software Development Kit: Allows the development of
customized channels using the SIMS infrastructure. Based on
the SIMS MTA, customized channels can be built to support
such things as gateways, fax, and pager functionality.
- Anti-Spamming Enhancements: Improve the existing SIMS anti-spamming capabilities to provide anti-relaying support.
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