Overview
OIT will begin migrating all of its central email users to a new mail system on August 20th, 2007. The new mail system is built on an open source platform named Cyrus. The entire migration should take a little over one week, during which each user’s account will be taken off line for a short period of time (Average is 3 minutes or less) while their mail folders and filter settings are migrated to the new system.
Why the New System?
We are moving to a new backend mail system so that we can provide enhanced features, performance, and reliability to UMBC email users. During the Fall 2006 semester UMBC’s mail servers suffered extreme performance degradation in part due to increases in Spam. In an effort to address these issues we are aggressively moving to an entirely new mail system with the following benefits:
• Dedicated Storage (separate from AFS)
• Increased Base Quota (1GB for Faculty & Staff, 400MB for Students)
• Increased Web Mail Performance
• Easy to Use Shared Folders
FAQ
Please click here to find answers to the most commonly asked migration questions.