The Enterprise Edition, also referred to as the Sun Internet Mail Server - Enterprise Edition, provides a full featured messaging server for large user communities, enterprise backbone management, and Internet firewall applications. The key features of the Sun Internet Mail Server - Enterprise Edition include all the features of the Departmental Edition plus the following:
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Multi-threaded IMAP4 and POP3 servers. These servers have higher performance and a much smaller footprint than the multiprocessing servers in the standard package. These servers support as many as 10,000 simultaneous connections and 100,000 mailboxes on an E3000-class server. |
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Full-featured IMTA. This includes extensive address rewriting and channel management facilities. |
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Multiprocessing LDAP directory service. |
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Server daemon processes that are managed by the Dispatcher instead of inetd, for better scalability. |
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Pipe channels that support extensibility of the IMTA through native UNIX system scripts. |
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High performance databases that replace internal flat files for the user cache, distribution lists, mappings, and forwarding. |
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Multiprocessing hardware support. |
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Anti-spamming. |
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Anti-relay. |
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Multiple configurable channels. |
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Sun SDK APIs available for custom channel development. |
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SMCS (Sun Messaging Connectivity Services), for the Microsoft Mail, cc:Mail, and PROFS channels. |
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Asymmetric HA. |
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MAPI providers. |
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Sun Web Access clients. |